Cupid Makes a Bull's Eye (1913)
It so happens that Widow Jones' daughter is beloved by the son of Widower Brown and the parents in each case who are strangers to each other, strenuously oppose anything that looks like no alliance between the families. One day the widow discovers the young man making love to her daughter and after reproving the girl, she pens a protest to the boy's father in a style that scorches the paper. The young people are not slow in ascertaining the attitude of their parents and put matters in train to outwit them. The son writes a letter to the daughter, informing her that the carriage will be waiting under the old pepper tree in readiness for their elopement and that his face will be curtained by heavy whiskers. She, in response, declares she will be in readiness and disguised by a heavy veil. These letters are then so disposed that quite by accident they will fall into the hands of the bothersome parents. This all works out as planned and both the widow and the widower conclude each independently to teach their child a lesson and thoroughly discomfit the one of their enemy. He hides himself in whiskers to disguise the briskets of age, assumes a falsetto voice, takes on a springy step and otherwise has the debonair air of youth. The widow, who has lost her waistline, gets all laced up and dolled out with veils and trimmings, so that she looks like a sixteen-year-old Tango girl. Then with impatient eagerness, the widow and widower each finally primed for revenge, keep the appointment under the old pepper tree. The widower cannot resist the temptation to kiss something young and tempting, so he plants a bus that almost starts a tooth in his willing victim. The widow, in turn, finds it to her liking to be squeezed by a boy whom she thinks is very strong for eighteen. The pair depart for the minister's residence, and in the interim the lovers have escaped and follow them in an auto. The widow sees and seizes a triumphant moment when she arrives in the drawing-room of the parson and throws aside her veil to find herself staring in the face of the widower who has discarded his herbivora in the form of those thick-laced whiskers. At this juncture the son and daughter rush into the scene, telling the bewildered fat folks that they have forgotten their marriage license, but they have brought theirs with them. The widow and the widower see the point of the joke and realize that they ought to be good neighbors and good parents, so they give their consent to the union.
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| Filmmakers | Role |
|---|---|
| E.A. Martin | Director |
| James Oliver Curwood | Writer |
| William Nicholas Selig | Producer |
| Cast | Role |
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| John Lancaster | |
| Frank Newburg | |
| Elsa Lorimer | |
| Harriet Notter |
