1916FalstaffOne reelComedy

Harry’s Happy Honeymoon

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The story

“Harry and Hilda, just married, elude a pursuing auto filled with well-wishers, and board the train for Fanover. One of the wedding guests, learning their destination, wires some friends of his at the college at Fanover, describing the honeymooners and asking the boys to make their sojourn in the town as lively as possible. On the train the bride becomes engrossed in a strenuous baby who throws Harry’s hat out of the car window, flings his nursing bottle after it, yanks the flowers out of Hilda’s hat—and gets Harry madder every minute. The mother alights at a station to procure milk, the train goes off without her, and the young couple arrive at Fanover with the youngster on their hands. This puts the college boys off the track, and Harry and Hilda arrive safely at their hotel with their little charge. A child has been kidnapped a few days before, and the description tallies closely with the newcomers. The town constable calls upon the bride and groom and places them under arrest. However, the frantic mother turns up next day and reclaims her child. Then the college boys, determined to make up for lost time, set to make the honeymooners’ visit to Fanover as spectacular and as memorable as possible.”

Summary from Reel Life · 29 January 1916

What the papers said

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“In this comedy number, a young couple, just married, evade their friends and take the train. On board this a baby is left in their hands, which leads to amusing complications, among them a charge of kidnapping. The number is not very strong in plot, but it is quite pleasing.”

The Moving Picture World · 12 February 1916

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Cast
Charles Emerson as mischievous college boy
Isolde Illian as his bride
Jay C. Yorke as Harry
Lord McCaskill as Matt, his chum
Lydia Mead as her mother

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From Volume II: Filmography of Q. David Bowers’ Thanhouser Films: An Encyclopedia and History, reproduced with permission and unchanged. Read the history of 1916 →

Cite as: Bowers, Q. David. Thanhouser Films: An Encyclopedia and History, “Harry’s Happy Honeymoon”. thanhouser.org/films/harry-s-happy-honeymoon/

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