Billy McGrath's Art Career (1912)
This time Billy attends an art exhibit of the new French "impressionistic" style. In company with his fiancée, Catherine Van Zandt, and her mother. Billy is introduced to the artist, Lecomte, but insults the dauber greatly at his display of ignorance over the paintings. Strolling down the gallery, Billy meets Ruth Radcliffe, an art student, whom he immediately takes a great interest in. That night he calls on Catherine, who declares he must do something to distinguish himself before she will be his wife. Billy is stumped, but, happening to visit the art gallery again, he finds Ruth in tears, and learns that she is forced to return to her country home because of her parents' poverty. Taking her boarding house address. Billy returns home. Deciding to distinguish himself in art work, he goes in for the new impressionistic style and succeeds in making a fine lot of daubs of everything, including James, his butler. One of these daubs he angrily smears up, and during his absence Catherine and her mother call, see the painting, think it marvelous and take it with them, leaving a blank check for him to fill out at his own figure. The result of this laughable experience gives Billy an idea. He visits Ruth, smears up all her paintings, calls in a group of wealthy friends and disposes of the daubs for a large sum of money. Ruth is now enabled to finish her art course, while Billy, supremely happy over the fact that he has really done a big thing, lights his pipe and dreams happily of approaching wedding chimes.
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