A Deal in Statuary (1914)
Gerald had a well-developed artistic temperament and a consequent aversion for disturbing his beautiful soul with thoughts of labor. He liked his friends, and one friend, named Ethel, in particular, so much more than he did pottering about with clay and marble, that his days, instead of being spent in the devoted concentration of purpose were filled with automobile parties and tango teas. A curious lack of appreciation of the real excellence of his motives on the part of his creditors led, after a time, to so many insistent demands for payment that Gerald was reluctantly forced to telegraph to his aunt, requesting the immediate gift of $1,000. Gerald's Aunt Jerusha knew something of her nephew's proclivities, and promptly telegraphed back that she would give him $5,000 if he ever finished a statue. Gerald, filled with delight at such reckless generosity, replied that he had two statues finished, and requested his aunt to remit the $10,000 in any way she pleased. In reply to this, Aunt Jerusha wrote that she was coming to look at the statues. This put Gerald in a rather uncomfortable position because the two statues he mentioned had only existed in his imagination. For a young man of his quick mind, however, a little thing of that sort did not make any particular difference. After a little thought, he hired his Japanese valet and the gardener to pose for the statues. When he showed Aunt Jerusha his masterly "Japanese Wrestler" and his equally excellent "American Boxer" everything would undoubtedly have gone along all right, had it not been for a small boy who had overheard the entire scheme. The small boy stuck a pin in the ankle of the American Boxer, while Aunt Jerusha was inspecting the group. The sturdy boxer promptly took a swing at his partner in crime, who replied with a bewildering succession of jiu-jitsu holds and ended by jumping on the boxer's stomach. Aunt Jersuha went home. The shock sobered Gerald to such an extent that he actually went to work, and made enough money all by himself to marry Ethel.
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| Filmmakers | Role |
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| Charles M. Seay | Director |
| Richard Neill | Writer |
| Cast | Role |
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| Augustus Phillips | |
| Gladys Hulette | |
| T. Tamamoto | |
| Ida Ward |
