A Gay Deceiver (1912)
Percival Smith kisses his wife affectionately good-bye and makes his departure. On the outside of his home he flirts with two fair dames and follows in their wake. He catches up with them at the park, and neglecting to proceed to his office he enters a café. He starts to flirt with a waitress and his newly-made lady friends take umbrage and depart in high dudgeon. He continues to pet his fair Priscilla until the manager takes him bodily and flings him into the street. He picks himself up, adjusts his anatomy and betakes himself to pastures new. A pretty chorus girl is leaving the stage door of a theater. The gay deceiver approaches her in a mincing manner. She rebuffs him, he persists, she flaunts away, he follows fast. Around the corner they go and she tells a cop, and into this copper's brawny embrace comes rushing the gay Lothario. But the deceiver sprints away and thus escapes. Next a janitor of buxom form comes under his observation, but when he assays to touch her, she meets him with a bucket of water. The next day at his office we find him feeding chocolates to his stenographer, whispering to her softly and printing luscious kisses on her lips. Suddenly his faithful spouse appears. In a rage she rushes home and engages her house-maid's services. An hour later, her startled husband learns over the phone that his home has been invaded by one of his own species. He rushes home and discovers a personage seated in his wife's lap. He summons a policeman and then he courageously smashes the high hat from the bead of the affinity. The hat flies off and from beneath rolls a mass of hair showing the features of his maid. A feeling of revulsion comes over him and be then swears off.
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GenresComedy
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| Filmmakers | Role |
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| Mark M. Dintenfass | Producer |
