The Barter of Louisa (1913)
Louisa, daughter of the Italian tenement, loves Tony, a fascinating young bootblack. This love inspires the jealousy of Giovani, an Italian landlord. Repulsed in his suit, Giovani makes Louisa's father an offer of a sum of money for the hand of his daughter. In spite of the fact that her father has already promised her to Tony, in a drunken stupor accepts Giovani's offer. Learning of this, Louisa, in a fit of hysteria at the idea of being sold like a sheep, turns furiously upon her father and the landlord. After an intensely dramatic scene, she leaves the house, running to the arms of her lover, Tony. She is pursued by Giovani and her drunken father. In front of Tony's bootblack stand they overtake her. At this point, Officer O'Hara, one of Giovani's tenants, and a friend of Tony's, enters upon the scene. Giovani, having made himself obnoxious to O'Hara by putting on airs of superiority, offers him a bribe of rent free for a year if he will not interfere between him and his efforts to obtain the girl. In spite of this fact, O'Hara sends Tony and Louisa off to be married, while he holds the two furious Italians. Tony and Louisa go to the priest and are married forthwith. During the ceremony. O'Hara has his hands full sitting on the two Italians and preventing their interference with the marriage. The marriage over, Tony and a number of his friends, his sweetheart much bedecked with a lace curtain for a wedding veil and some cheap flowers purchased from the priest, are having a grand procession. They come upon the perspiring O'Hara, who is now assisted by two other policemen, all off duty. Indignant at the implied bribe, O'Hara asks Tony what he had better do with the two culprits. In a fit of genius, Tony, who knows the humiliation of shining shoes day in and day out, suggests that the policeman make the Italians shine their shoes. This they do, to the amusement of the entire wedding party, who parade joyously off to Tony's home, where they leave him with his happy little bride.
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