The French Duel

Alphonse and Gaston get into an argument over cocktails and agree to a duel.

Alphonse and Gaston get into an argument over cocktails and agree to a duel.

The amateur dramatic society chooses the Joneses’ residence as the location of its next meeting, and both Joneses catch ‘the acting bug’ in this split-reel subject.

A confirmed bachelor learns that he will inherit his late uncle’s fortune only if he marries, which he does reluctantly. Shortly afterward he returns to his bachelor lifestyle but realizes he can’t get his wife’s face out of his thoughts.

An upper class drawing room. A gentleman breaks the curtain pole and goes in search of a replacement, but he stops into a pub first. He buys a very long pole, and causes havoc everywhere he passes, accumulating an ever-growing…

Mr. and Mrs. Hilton throw a New Year’s Eve party. They agree not to drink the punch themselves, but as guests begin to arrive their resolve weakens, and soon they are both cavorting drunkenly. Next morning Mr. Hilton, feeling very…

A new bride has made a batch of biscuits. Her husband pretends to like them, so she delivers the rest to his office. But one bite of these biscuits makes you violently ill, and soon all his visitors (he runs…
Jones’s mother-in-law prohibits his smoking and drinking, so he takes her out for the evening and gets her drunk.

Harry leaves his new wife at home while he goes out to play poker. Angry, his wife fakes evidence that she has had a male caller while he was gone.
A David Wark Griffith film directed by , released in 1909.
After overhearing Jones mocking her, the lady book agent slips a suggestive note into Jones’s pocket. A jealous Mrs. Jones finds the note, and a huge quarrel erupts.