The Boy the Girl and the Auto (1916)
Ray and Neal are both suitors for Billie's hand. It appears to be an even race until Ray buys a Ford; from then on Neal is left behind. He tries to get himself a car, but an audit of his accounts show hardly enough money to rent a machine, let alone buy one. While he is despairing he sees an advertisement in the paper requesting a driver for the car of Mr. Smith. He calls upon Mr. Smith in answer to the advertisement. Mr. Smith is getting along in years, but his wife is very jealous of him and on every occasion she cautions her husband upon familiarity with his stenographers. Neal lands the job and his first trip is to take Mrs. Smith to the matinee. Thinking that Mrs. Smith will be in there for several hours. Neal hurries to Billie's house and finds Ray waiting for the girl. When Billie comes out and sees Neal in the big car Ray is forgotten and the two young people have an enjoyable ride. Mrs. Smith, meanwhile, disgusted with the show, returns to where the car was left and finds it gone, she sets out for her husband's office in a bad mood. Mr. Smith thinks a great deal of Ethel, his stenographer, and his wife comes into the office when Ethel is in Mr. Smith's private office. She expresses determination to burst into the office, but to verify her suspicions she attempts to peer through the keyhole. The chief clerk, however, warns Mr. Smith of his wife's presence and Smith tips his stenographer and begins to give her a calling down. The stenographer leaves the room in tears and Mrs. Smith determines that her suspicions had been unjust. Neal returns, using the old excuse of a broken down engine and gets away with it. Billie likes Neal and his big car so much that she asks him to take her shopping the next day and he promises to call for her. Next day he takes Smith to his office and then hurries to meet Billie. He takes his girl around town and after the shopping expedition has been finished he returns home with her. Mrs. Smith has meanwhile found a lady's handkerchief in her husband's coat pocket and determines to have it out with him. On the way to the office she sees Neal and Billie and decides that Smith has allowed his stenographer to use the car. Neal hurries back to the office and is waiting for Smith when Billie. having missed her purse, hurries in and seeing the car gets into it. Neal is in a hard fix for a moment but tells Billie the car is broken down, and she being in a hurry, does not wait. Mr. and Mrs. Smith both confront him and he is unable to deny having the girl out. It all ends up by Neal getting fired, and as he goes dejectedly down the street Ray and Billie in the Ford pass him by and give him the laugh.
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GenresComedy
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| Filmmakers | Role |
|---|---|
| Horace Davey | Director |
| Neal Burns | Writer |
| Al Christie | Writer |
| Cast | Role |
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| Ray Gallagher | |
| Neal Burns | |
| Billie Rhodes | |
| Harry L. Rattenberry |
