Mutt and Jeff Fall in Love (1912)

Jeff goes to meet a certain charming damsel. She leads him into a swell restaurant. With his full consent she takes his diamond ring and all his available cash. Then suddenly remembers that she is to meet a lady friend, and Jeff with her photograph in his possession, slinks back home. Mutt, too, has a date. The lady, the same lady, is already there awaiting him. Mutt is led to the same restaurant and through the same ordeal. In return he gets her photo, a warm handshake and au revoir. Mutt returns home and finds Jeff having a love day dream. The fact that they suffer from the same childish malady causes them to confide to each other and, Ye Gods! the photographs show how badly they have been duped. They must be revenged! A letter is dashed off to the false one. She accepts the invitation to dine at a Chinese restaurant. Tom Wong, the proprietor, however, informs the diners that they will have to pay one hundred dollars for every dish that they should happen to break. Things go along nicely until Mutt, seconded by Jeff, makes a motion to get "those presents back." Dish after dish is smashed into smithereens. The police are called in and drag Mutt and Jeff away to the station house. The police captain, susceptible to feminine charms, hands the lady into an automobile and she speeds away in triumph.

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