The Merry Widow Takes Another Partner (1910)
"The Merry Widow" is a winner. A short time ago she had cast aside her weeds and wedded an Italian count who has recently departed this mundane sphere to join his predecessors. Free and unfettered by matrimonial ties, she again longs for sympathy and another partner to share her joys and sorrows. Puff and Grunt, the two fat and disappointed suitors for the widow's hand, hear of her recent loss and determine to try it again, and once more their friendship is disturbed by the rivalry into which they plunge to secure her as his "only own." The feeling becomes so intense they challenge each other to a fist fight in order to establish a priority to the prize. They both seek the assistance of a professor of physical culture. In order to perfect themselves in the manly art of self-defense. They are fit, in their own estimation, to battle for a kingdom, or the championship of the world. They meet in the ring, each with his instructor, "don the mitts," and proceed to demonstrate their science and determine the rightful claimant to the fair widow's hand and fortune. While they are in the midst of the "bout" a messenger boy rushes in and announces the marriage of the widow at the little church around the corner. Off go their boxing gloves, pell mell they dash for their hats and coats and the door. Reaching the street, they indulge in an unceremonious chase for the widow's home, then to the church, where they arrive just in time to meet the widow with her newly acquired spouse, in the shape of a diminutive and corpulent dwarf, coming out the church door with the bridal procession, and never so much as a glance at the vanquished rivals. Puff and Grunt link arms and dejectedly make their way to a "thirst parlor," where they imbibe sufficient resolution to seal their friendship and make an avowal of "Never again!"
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