Stolen Magic

A Keystone comedy short starring Mabel Normand

A Keystone comedy short starring Mabel Normand

Sweedie, the cook, reads an ad in the newspaper for a maid to give her services in exchange for college tuition. She applies and is accepted.

Mr. Dingy engages Sweedie as their cook. She insists upon bringing her dog “Skinny” and her parrot along. Mr. Dingy dislikes dogs, but rather than lose Sweedie he consents.

The parents of a wealthy young man arrange for him to marry a woman he has never seen. When he meets and falls for a young woman he convinces his valet to switch places. The idea is that the valet…

Sweedie while reading a book in the kitchen, falls asleep. She dreams that Kao Yama, Sultan of Puff Puff, has sent her a present in the form of a servant. She refuses to accept the slave, telling the Sultan’s messengers…
A Roy Clements film directed by , released in 1915.

A Hal Roach film directed by , released in 1915.

A very young Charley Chase is a starving artist. He does not have much luck stealing fruit from a food vendor’s cart. He cannot escape from his landlady, who wants the overdue rent. When a pretty girl shows up, Charley…

A happy young couple become engaged, and soon afterwards they are married. But after their marriage, the husband begins to stay out carousing with his friends, leaving his wife at home with her mother. Then, when the three of them…

A Hal Roach film directed by , released in 1915.