- Two American grandfathers in France try to arrange marriages for their grandson and granddaughter by promising them money. The young ones refuse and run off to join a theatrical group where they fall in love and marry as their grandparents had intended.—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
- Two old gentlemen in France are discussing the fact that their daughters married Americans 25 years ago. Each has a photograph of his grandchild, whose names are Bob Randall and Betty Wright. The old Frenchmen deplore the fact that in America young people marry whom they please, and decide that it is due to the honor of their families that their grandchildren should marry, according to the French fashion, the people picked out for them by the older heads of the family. They decide to marry the grand children to each other, and in order to insure the carrying out of their wishes, each writes a letter to his own grandchild, stating that each grandchild will receive 2,000,000 francs upon marrying the other. The scene now goes to America and we see the two grandchildren, Betty being taken shopping by her mother, and Bob as a student in a little country college in the same town. The two have never met. Bob becomes involved in a mischievous college prank, involving the stealing of a cigar store Indian, and is being hotly pursued by the town constable. He rounds a corner in his efforts to escape and sees an automobile standing at the sidewalk, with Betty Wright sitting in the back seat. To escape his pursuers he jumps into the front of the auto and starts it off, driving it out into the country, in spite of the remonstrances of Betty. The car breaks down and the pursuers are hotly upon their trail. The two young people are much struck with each other and Betty, realizing that it was only a college prank, doesn't want to see the young man get into serious trouble and so helps him hide from the others who come up and take Betty and the car back, before either of the young folks has learned the other's name. On their return home, the letters, from the grandparents are awaiting them; Bob's letter ordering him to marry a Betty Wright whom he has never seen, and Betty's letter demanding that she marry a Bob Randall, who is unknown to her. The young people refuse their parents' demands to marry the unknown. Pressure is brought to bear upon them, which results in their determining to run away, though neither knows that the other has planned to do so. Betty escapes from her window and joins a little one-horse theatrical troupe, playing "Romeo and Juliet" in the tank town, led by a certain Horatio Brutus Bangs, a genial but impecunious old actor. The juvenile man and woman of this troupe have just left, because no salaries have been paid, and when Betty, having seen the poster, applies for a position in the company, Horatio regards it as an act of Providence and accepts her. At the railroad station they find Bob, who is waiting for a train, with no definite plans, except to go out into the world and make his fortune. The two young people recognize each other and Bob determines to cast his lot in with the theatrical troupe, because of his infatuation for Betty. The two young people, having changed their names in order to evade their parents, remain unaware that it is their love for each other which is really causing them to run away in order to avoid marrying each other. In the next town we see the little company trying to give a performance of "Romeo and Juliet" under very adverse circumstances, and finally the Sheriff attaches all their baggage. There is no money to pay the hotel bill and the company is sent to the village lockup, where Bob's romance with Betty commences to grow. Betty's parents trace her and are taking her away when the two young folks discover each other's identity. The company is liberated from prison and starts to walk the ties back to New York, and Bob and Betty surprise their parents by suddenly ceasing their opposition to the match and meekly obeying their grandfather's will and marrying each other.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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