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The Idol Worshipper (1912)
Short | Short, Comedy, Drama

The Idol Worshipper (1912)

Short | Short, Comedy, Drama

Maud Merriwell is a charming girl, but fond of romantic novels. She disgusts her father with her sentimentality, especially when the old gentleman has his ankle broken and is forced to remain home in a wheeled chair. One afternoon as he is...See moreMaud Merriwell is a charming girl, but fond of romantic novels. She disgusts her father with her sentimentality, especially when the old gentleman has his ankle broken and is forced to remain home in a wheeled chair. One afternoon as he is sitting by his library window, Maud and Tom Harland think the old gentleman is asleep, and Tom proposes to Maud for the hundredth time. She refuses him, again declaring that "No man but a hero can win my hand." Tom is disgusted, and walks away, but gets a signal from the old gentleman to come inside. He does so, and the father proposes a plan to make a hero out of him. This is to fill about six coal buckets with leaves and set fire to them, right there in the library. Then Tom can rush in and save his life. Tom agrees, thinking it will be a good joke to play on Maud. The old gentleman follows out the plan. Meanwhile, Tom walks outside, sees Maud entertaining a crowd of girls, and so goes into the garden to smoke his pipe and await the signal. The smoke is now rushing out of the window, the girls see it and scream with fright. Maud and the rest of them are transfixed to the spot with horror. Maud strikes a romantic attitude and cries out: "I swear that I will marry the man who saves my father's life!" She naturally expects Tom to be on the job, but it happens that the Chinese laundryman is coming up the walk with a bundle of wash on his back. The girls see him, but Maud has fainted. Tom rushes up, and sees his sweetheart fainting. This frightens him more than the smoke, which he knows is a fake fire. So he stays with her chafing her wrists and kissing her. The girls force the Chinaman into the window of the smoking room. The next scene shows the Chinaman trying to rescue old Mr. Merriwell who resolutely resists all attempts to rescue him. He is in his wheeled chair and he has a great combat with the Chinaman. At last the Chinaman pulls him out on the porch. Maud has revived and the girls tease her about her vow. Tom hears it and tells his father, and they secretly determine to teach her a lesson. Tom goes to the Chinaman, gives him five dollars and offers him five more, if he will obey orders. Then Maud's father tells her that to save the family's name and honor she must marry the Chinaman. The girls have been tipped off, and they all back him up. Tom pretends to be a heroic martyr. Maud is frantic, but the girls hurry upstairs and make her pack her suitcase. Tom sends for a minister, in his automobile, and the man arrives shortly, very mystified. Tom and Mr. Merriwell dress the Chinaman in an old frock coat, with silk hat, etc. Tom sits down at the piano in the library to play the wedding march in rag time, while the girls bring Maud in, weeping and sobbing. The poor chink is led in (by the chauffeur) frightened to death. At the last instant Mr. Merriwell rolls in on his wheeled chair leading the minister. This, too much for Maud throws herself on Tom's bosom. That young man slips the Chink his final five, and the laundryman dives out of the window, to escape from the white devils. The minister, bewildered at the fuss, has sense enough to marry the two. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less

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4 cast members

Name	Known for
Blanche Cornwall Maud Merriwell Maud Merriwell See fewer	True Hearts (1913)
Darwin Karr Tom Harland Tom Harland See fewer	Eugene Wrayburn (1911)
Lee Beggs Old Merriwell - Maud's Father Old Merriwell - Maud's Father See fewer	Ten Nights in a Barroom (1913)
Billy Quirk Chinese Laundryman Chinese Laundryman See fewer	Algie, the Miner (1912)