Volume II: Filmography

WEARY WALKER'S WOES

(Falstaff)

September 10, 1915 (Friday)

Length: 1 reel (1,014 feet)

Character: Comedy

Scenario: Lloyd F. Lonergan

Cast: Boyd Marshall (weary walker), Justus D. Barnes (lawyer)

Note: During this period Reel Life frequently misspelled Justus D. Barnes' first name as "Justin."

SYNOPSIS, Reel Life, September 25, 1915:

"Weary Walker discovers a letter in his path one morning as he walks along wondering where he can find a breakfast. 'Call at our office and receive $10,000 left by your late uncle. The single stipulation is that you are prosperous. This letter is the only identification required,' is the cheerful message. 'Easy money!' says Weary Walker. 'Me for it. But how to be prosperous?' On his way to a barber shop, he annexes a fur-lined coat, and induces a simple-minded clerk to trust him with a pair of shoes. On his way out, after a shave, hair cut, massage, manicure, shoeshine and cigar, which he manages to get away without paying for, he helps himself to a collar, tie, and silk hat belonging to the man in the next chair, and uses his victim's automobile to get away in. Then he hies him to the lawyer's office to get his inheritance. To his surprise, he finds that the man whom he divested of hat, collar and tie is the lawyer himself. Pretending that he is leading Weary Walker to his money, he takes him, like a lamb to the slaughter, to the police court. There the two are joined by Weary Walker's other creditors, who are rejoiced at the meeting.

"After each man has received back his own, and the police lieutenant is reflecting over the entire event, while Weary Walker is enjoying an enforced visit behind the bars, the officer of the law says to his assistant: 'He forgot to read the second page. This isn't a letter about property. It's just a clever ad that lawyer got up.'

"'Give my compliments to Weary Walker,' continues the lieutenant, 'and tell him his inheritance will be either three or six months, depending on how the judge enjoyed his breakfast.'"

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