Volume II: Filmography

FARE, LADY

(Falstaff)

(Mutual Program)

August 22, 1916 (Tuesday)

Length: 1 reel

Character: Comedy

Cast: Riley Chamberlin (Conductor 786)

Notes: 1. This was a left-over film, released on the Mutual Program, and made before Thanhouser was affiliated with the Pathé Exchange, Inc. 2. The comma in the title was omitted in several schedules and notices.

SYNOPSIS, The Moving Picture World, September 9, 1916:

"Until he fell in love, Conductor No. 786 was quite a model employee. Thereafter, every time he passed a real estate office he stopped the car right in the middle of the block to search the displays for advertised houses for sale. Once he let a whole family ride three miles on one fare. Then he forgot to stop the car so Fatty could get on and Fatty had to chase the car ten blocks before he caught up with it. But one day, the conductor's bride-to-be insisted that he quit ringing up fares and become a lawless desperado in order to satisfy her romantic novel-reading disposition. And the conductor did, with the result that he fell into a nest of adventures, near arrest, narrow escapes from minions of the law and of posse's noose."

REVIEW, The Moving Picture World, September 2, 1916:

"An excellent comedy, this number shows how a street car conductor plays burglar to please the fancy of a young lady with whom he has fallen in love. To prove the truth of his assertions that he has in his time committed blood-curling crimes he has his partner play victim while he robs his own apartment. The police interfere with his fun, and the young lady is disillusioned."

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