Summary
A bucolic manor becomes the stage for a pas de quatre of mistaken hearts when widower Charles Murray and his callow son chase parallel affections—father for the affluent widow, son for her sprightly daughter—only to collide in a farce of identical bouquets. Ford Sterling’s slick bigamist blows in like a cyclone, trailing a discarded wife and child who scramble the paternal assumption that the boy is courting the matron instead of the maiden. Cue a slapstick crescendo: the wrong man throttled, the right villain ejected, and a double wedding that stitches three generations into one rickety, rose-strewn tableau.
Synopsis
Charles Murray and son find themselves in love with Widow and her daughter, Char lot to Mineau, and Mario Provost. Charming romantic scenes "between George Bolgor, the son and Marie Prevost. Romances of both seem to progress favorably until both decide to present their sweethearts with bouquets which happen to be identical. Father seeing son giving his bouquet to widow for her daughter mistakes act and thinks boy is making love to the lady of his choice. Innumerable misunderstandings follow which when cleared up pave way for big misunderstanding which starts when Ford sterling, an adventurer arrives at country hotel where parties are vacationing. Sterling has just had adventure with matrimonial agency, having married a client and deserted her and her son. They follow him to country place arriving just in time to prevent his marriage to charming widow who is not only pretty but wealthy. Boy at first mistakes his victim, he never having seen his step father and administers a terrible beating to poor Charles Murray who has arrived with a little gift and broken heart to wish the widow a happy life. Son is played by Eddie Gribbon and he makes due apology to Murray and proceeds to drag sterling out to merited fate, leaving Murray to resume his suit, and win the widow, while charming Marie is married in double wedding to her gallant lover, Bolger.
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