Volume II: Filmography

WHERE WIVES WIN

(Falstaff)

June 10, 1916 (Saturday)

Length: 1 reel

Character: Comedy

Scenario: Lloyd F. Lonergan

Cast: Carey L. Hastings (mother), Joseph Phillips (father), Reenie Farrington (daughter), John Beck (her sweetheart), W. Eugene Moore, Jr. (cowboy)

SYNOPSIS, Reel Life, June 3, 1916:

"The young mechanic thought it was rather hard to dance at night after working all day. The young man sighed, and he envied his prospective father-in-law when that individual sneaked out to a nearby saloon. The wife went around but was headed off. All this time the suitor had been dancing, but he had reached his limit. He fell asleep and had a terrible dream. His tumble from the sofa brought the women in from the kitchen just as the old man strolled in. The two consoled themselves. 'Cheer up. It might have been worse,' they said as they settled down."

REVIEW, The Moving Picture World, June 24, 1916:

"This is an unusually good comedy number wherein the daughter of a truck driver receives her lover in her father's home and makes him dance so much that while she helps her mother with the dishes he falls asleep and dreams that he is a Western cowboy. He rides downstairs on a white horse and sees his sweetheart's mother haul her father out of a saloon, lasso him and give him a run home while she rides the horse."

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