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The Tired Business Man Synopsis
Al appears as a sidewalk flirt who follows a girl but gets in trouble with a cop until he outwits him. Discovering the girl works in a musical instrument place, he manages to get a job but demoralizes the place and finally persuades the help to run away for a picnic, the boss follows and is persuaded to join the party and while the girls dress as "boy scouts" Al and his pal start hunting. They are chased by a bear and the girls shoot them by mistake and the day ends with a terrific windstorm that buries the bunch in a tent as it blows over.
An Amateur Devil Synopsis
Carver Endicott, a young sophisticate, is rejected by his fiancée for being too foppish and dull. When she feigns an interest in his father, Carver attempts to disgrace his family name by working as a farmhand and later as a busboy in a hotel. However, the newspapers only praise him for his self-sacrificing principles; and finding that he cannot bring shame to the family through menial labor, he takes up with a notorious actress. But when this maneuver also fails, he returns to his former fiancée, who has no further complaint about his being an inexperienced dullard.
"The Tired Business Man" holds a slight edge in general audience appreciation, but "An Amateur Devil" offers its own unique cult appeal.
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