The Gilded Kidd (1914)
The Gilded Kidd was a great favorite with newspaper reporters in need of a story. Born with a gold spoon in his mouth, the proud possessor of an over-indulgent father, the young man was continually getting into scrapes of all sorts, for which father promptly paid the bills. Thanks to the newspaper notoriety he had received, the Gilded Kidd's face was well known about town. Wherever he appeared, merchants, headwaiters, and barkeepers raised their hands aloft and gave thanks to Allah. But though father's millions effectually guarded most of the ways of life for him, there was one in which he was not so lucky, love. He was madly infatuated with Elsie Lucas, but Elsie looked askance at him. She did not intend to marry a man who was nothing but a public joke. So she smiled on Tom Graham, and the Gilded Kidd squirmed in helpless rage. One day Kidd got into an argument with Graham over the relative rights of the poor and the rich. Graham claimed that it was an impossibility for the Kidd to get arrested, and the Kidd instantly bet him that he could land inside of a jail in three days. The loser of the wager was to absent himself from the fair Elsie for the space of three months. The next morning the Kidd started out to get himself arrested. It was not as easy as it seemed. When he openly stole fruit from a fruit-stand, the vendor merely smiled happily. and prepared a bill for his father. When he broke the windows in a house, the indignant owner was quickly placated by the policeman she sent for. When he went to sleep on a park bench another policeman put a sunshade over him lest the glare hurt his eyes. Even his threats to commit suicide were treated lightly by the indulgent police, and when he claimed that he had murdered a man. they refused to arrest him because he couldn't produce the body. At last, in desperation, he succeeded in bribing a warden to allow him to take a prisoner's place. When he was at last happily in the cell, Elsie, with a committee from a woman's club, visited the jail and saw him. On the register the man whose place the Kidd had taken was inscribed as "Bill Nabb, Breach of Promise under an assumed name." Elsie looked at it and fled in horrified wrath. But the worst was yet to come. For when the Kidd was thinking of leaving, the warden handed him a note he had just received. The note read as follows: "Mr. Jailer, You can tell the young man if he's waiting for me he'll have ter wate a long wile becuz I ain't never coming back. Bill Nabb."
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| Filmmakers | Role |
|---|---|
| C.J. Williams | Director |
| Mark Swan | Writer |
| Cast | Role |
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| Arthur Housman | |
| Elsie MacLeod | |
| Edward Earle | |
| Robert Brower |
