A Personal Affair (1912)
Bob and two friends were ridiculing the personals in a daily paper one day when Bob conceives the idea of inserting a "personal" just for a lark, representing himself as a young girl, heiress to eighty thousand dollars, desiring the acquaintance of a sincere gentleman. The following day the ad is published and read by Ann, who, in the spirit of a joke, urged on by two girls, answers it, representing herself as a sincere, lonely gentleman. Several letters pass between Ann and Bob without either of them suspecting the other's true identity. Finally, a place of meeting face to face is agreed upon and the day and hour is set, the gentleman to wear a white carnation in his coat lapel as a mark of identification. Ann is the first to arrive at the appointed place. She stations a boy with a large box of white carnations not far away. Instructing him to present each man who passes with a carnation, beginning promptly at four o'clock. Bob, dressed in female attire, arrives a few minutes ahead of time and anxiously awaits the gentleman with the carnation, while his companions stand outside to see the fun. They don't have to wait long for Bob accosts several men wearing carnations who in turn are shocked, surprised, indignant, etc. One man of pugilistic tendencies is exceedingly angry, when he discovers after a short flirtation that Bob is not a girl but a man masquerading. A fight ensues which brings the police and a crowd to the spot. Ann and the girls, who have been watching the result of their joke from a distance, now come forward, whereupon Bob and Ann recognize each other as having met before and after explaining their practical joke to the policeman, who in turn pacifies the pugilistic gentleman. Bob and Ann renew their acquaintance, and thus a romance of love begins.
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GenresComedy
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| Filmmakers | Role |
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| C.J. Williams | Director |
| Cast | Role |
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| Walter Miller | |
| Mary Fuller | |
| Edward Boulden | |
| Harry Beaumont |
