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  • A Rare Boarder (1916)
  • Short | Short, Comedy
A Rare Boarder (1916)
Short | Short, Comedy
Pokes, a traveling salesman for cheap diamond rings, visits the city where his pal Jabbs, the well-known actor, is playing a week's engagement at the local theater. Jabbs' specialty is female impersonation, while Pokes' speed is to woo and...See morePokes, a traveling salesman for cheap diamond rings, visits the city where his pal Jabbs, the well-known actor, is playing a week's engagement at the local theater. Jabbs' specialty is female impersonation, while Pokes' speed is to woo and inflame the hearts of all damsels that cross his path. In the boarding house where he is staying, he finds several of the fair sex, and thinking that he will help push the sale of his bum jewelry, he begins to lay siege to the affections of all of them, but at different intervals. To each and all of them he presents a sparkler and a photo of himself with the inscription, "To my future wife," on the back of them. Each girl considers herself the fiancée of the charming Pokes, and secretly laughs at her less fortunate fellow roomers. However, when May discovers in Nellie's room the photo of Pokes adorning her dresser and on the back of the photo the same inscription as Pokes had written on the one he had presented to her, there is an awful scrimmage. The fight attracts the attention of the other roomers, and after truce has been declared, all discover that Pokes has been trifling with them. The girls all join against the unlucky Pokes and the only thing that saves his life is his promise to marry the girl his mother chooses. In desperation he implores Jabbs to impersonate his mother, and this the actor consents to do. So clad in full regalia he accompanies Pokes to the boarding house where the two deceivers are getting away with the bluffing until Jabbs is unmasked by the lawyer who is acting in the interests of the girls. This double deception at the hands of Pokes makes the fury of the women break all bounds, but in the end the two conspirators manage to escape from destruction with the solemn assurance to each other of "NEVER AGAIN." Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less
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Louis Burstein
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Updated Dec 8, 1916
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Dec 8, 1916 (United States)

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