An Adamless Eden (1912)
The Marston Inn, at Riverdale, is a perfect feminine Eden, but without a man. Consequently pretty Eva Dixon, and a bevy of charming girlfriends, become wildly excited on seeing a newspaper announcement that Prince Augustus Busch, of Tromania, is tramping the country for recreation, and is in the vicinity. Even while they read a bedraggled young man is coming up the road and of course the girls believe him to be the prince. He is welcomed with open arms, is forced to register at the inn and becomes the idol of the pretty charmers who flirt outrageously. That night this mysterious man slips into the hotel baggage-room and appropriates some dudish clothes from a large trunk. Dressed in these he makes an instant hit with the girls and next day he is surfeited with canoe rides, tramps through the cool forest and tete-a-tete on the lawn. It finally develops into a love match between the "prince" and Eva, and they are motoring along the road one day when they are seen by an elderly lady who instantly recognizes the "prince" as Adam Boob, an inmate of a nearby asylum. She immediately informs Adam's father, who starts in search of the boy. Meanwhile Eva's jealous friends have faked up a letter, coming supposedly from the "prince's" wife, saying she is in need of money and that the twins have the measles. This they show to Eva, and the poor girl is having an awful time when old Mr. Boob hustles in with two asylum attendants, explains that Adam is demented, and leads him away while the horrified girls immediately pack their things and start to leave, just in time to meet the real prince and his party entering. But their mortification is complete, and with upturned noses, they snub the royal guests and hasten away, while a roar of laughter tortures their ears.
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