The Fable of the Galumptious Girl (1915)

Madeline lived in an E flat town. It was not dead but sleeping. Every time she sized up the local group of town cut-ups, she put the soubrette's curse on Home Sweet Home. She accepted an invitation to visit her city cousin and she didn't break up and cry when she left home. Her city cousin feared that the country cousin would be a kill-joy, but she discovered that Madeline was simply aching for excitement. She sent home for money every twenty minutes. The tango instructor said she was a bird. At a farewell party she made her city friends promise to come into the wilderness and give the village rummies a taste of high life. When the swells arrived there was much excitement. They put on a regular tango party at the town hall. It was some party. The refreshments included a large punch bowl. Enough said. Along about midnight the colored lemonade began to work. The members of the married woman's league held an indignation meeting. Madeline had to get her trained troupe out of town. She was disgraced forever. She has to live in the city as the wife of a dissolute millionaire.

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GenresComedy Short