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The Heart Breaker Synopsis
When the shortcomings of a member of the Bachelors' Club are revealed to him for becoming engaged, he wagers the club president that the latter cannot spend a week at a designated inn without becoming engaged. The president takes the bet and finds the inn run by women and with only women guests, most of them of the beauteous sort. That she may avoid an unwelcome suitor, one of the guests is disguised as a boy. The bachelor persuades her to don girl's attire, thinking her a boy, and to represent herself as being engaged to him, so that he may avoid the other girls. By the time he discovers she is really a girl, he has fallen in love with her. He helps her to evade the rejected suitor and her father and mother, who have made the match for her. The girl and the bachelor are finally married in the middle of the lake at the height of the chase.
Mary's Ankle Synopsis
While walking along the street one day, Arthur P. Hampton, an impoverished young doctor, and his chums, Stub Masters and Johnny Stokes, are persuaded to part with their last remaining funds by tag day solicitor Mary Jane Smith, with whom the doctor promptly falls in love. Doc's friends then hit upon a get-rich-quick scheme. Knowing that his Uncle George has promised a large sum of money upon his nephew's marriage, they persuade Doc to send out fake wedding invitations naming Mary Jane as the blushing bride. Uncle George, elated at the good news, writes to Mary Jane's aunt, Angelica Burns, an old sweetheart, to invite Mary Jane and Angelica to be his guests on an ocean voyage. Meanwhile, Mary Jane pays a visit to the doctor's office and, upon seeing the wedding invitations, becomes so flustered that she trips and sprains her ankle. Doc comes to her rescue and then begs her to pose as his wife. She agrees, but at ship-side, Stub and Johnnie confess all to Uncle George, who flies into a rage until Doc announces that he and Mary Jane have chosen a wedding at sea.
"The Heart Breaker" holds a slight edge in general audience appreciation, but "Mary's Ankle" offers its own unique cult appeal.
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