Volume II: Filmography

ALL ABOARD

November 28, 1915 (Sunday)

Length: 1 reel (970 feet)

Character: Comedy

Cast: Florence LaBadie (the girl), Samuel Niblack (her sweetheart), Ethyle Cooke (her friend), Lawrence Swinburne (her rejected suitor)

Note: In publicity the title was sometimes listed in quotation marks: "All Aboard."

ARTICLE, The New Rochelle Pioneer, December 25, 1915:

"Flo LaBadie, the local studio's star, has been so anxious to appear in a comedy that Mr. Thanhouser recently consented to let her play in one. Consequently the star was given the lead in All Aboard, a one-reel comedy, in which she is supported by Samuel Niblack, Ethyle Cooke, and Lawrence Swinburne. All Aboard tells the tale of a headstrong girl who possesses a great deal of money and who refused to let her guardian keep the money in his family by marrying his son. As the girl goes away to college he sends his son along on the same boat, hoping that the moonlight evenings on the water in the company of his son will change the girl's mind. It doesn't however, and she marries the good-looking young chap without any money whom she meets on board."

SYNOPSIS, Reel Life, November 27, 1915:

"The girl had plenty of money, and as her guardian thought it should be kept in the family, he encouraged his son to woo his ward. But the girl remained indifferent to the young man's advances. The guardian had read W. Clark Russell's sea stories, so he knew that a sea voyage often precipitates a love affair. When his ward went north to college he sent her by boat. Her unwelcome suitor, unknown to her, was also a passenger. But the guardian had forgotten that there would be other young men on board and that his son was an extremely bad sailor. Most of the trip the son spent in his stateroom praying that death might come, while the girl thoroughly enjoyed the trip in the company of a strange young man from Boston. The boat scarcely had docked when the guardian received a telegram. It read: 'I won't have a wife who keeps well when I am seasick. Besides she's going to marry a chap she met on the boat, Horace.'"

REVIEW, The Moving Picture World, November 27, 1915:

"A comedy number with a slight but agreeable plot, featuring Flo LaBadie. She meets a reporter on board a steamship, with whom she falls in love. The guardian's son, who desire's her hand, becomes seasick and gives up the chase. This latter feature furnishes the chief amusement of the number."

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