The Niece and the Chorus Lady (1911)
Jones' wife, mother-in-law and brother-in-law go to the seashore for recreation, leaving Jones alone in town. After a time he receives a letter from his wife saying she intends staying on, but is sending her mother and her brother home to keep him company. He is so disgusted at this that he overlooks a letter from his niece out west saying she is going to pay him a visit, and rushes from the house with his umbrella. Turning a windy corner he is run into by Mazie, a chorus girl, whose umbrella has turned inside out. The rain descends in torrents, and he gallantly lends her his umbrella and takes refuge in a nearby doorway. Mazie tells her experience to her associates and finding his name and address on the handle of the umbrella, decides to return it in person. Jones' mother-in-law and brother-in-law have just returned from the seashore. She finds his niece's letter and at once decides that she would be a splendid match for her son (the niece being an heiress in her own right), and telegraphs Jones' wife to return and help arrange the match. Meantime Mazie calls and returns Jones' umbrella. The mother-in-law finds Jones with a strange young woman and demands an explanation. Jones, panic-stricken, introduces Mazie as his niece from the west. The mother-in-law at once proceeds to make Mazie feel at home and tries to fix up the match for her son. The real niece arrives upon the scene and as her is warmly welcoming her, he is caught again by mother-in-law and on being cornered, not daring to tell the truth while Mazie is still masquerading as the niece. He introduces his real niece as the butler's wife. Algy, the brother-in-law, proposes to Mazie, who, thinking him a wealthy young man because of his surroundings, promptly accepts him, and they hurry out to get married. As Jones is trying to straighten matters out with his niece his wife walks in and catches him in the act. Finding himself getting deeper and deeper into the mire, he decides to make a clean breast of everything and tells his wife that the young woman is his real niece from the west. The mother-in-law denies this, but Mazie, returning with hew newly wedded husband, soon straightens matters out, and they finally succeed in obtaining forgiveness and a blessing from Algy's mother.
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