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  • Love and Lather (1916)
  • Short | Short, Comedy
Love and Lather (1916)
Short | Short, Comedy
Spook, the barber, is in despair because he is unable to accompany his friend on a fishing trip owing to the fact that he has nobody to take care of the shop during his absence. In looking about for a substitute, he chances to see Pokes, ...See moreSpook, the barber, is in despair because he is unable to accompany his friend on a fishing trip owing to the fact that he has nobody to take care of the shop during his absence. In looking about for a substitute, he chances to see Pokes, the street cleaner, and mistaking Pokes' white wing suit for barber's clothes, he tries to press him into service for the day. Pokes is willing to accept the offer once he catches sight of Spook's daughter, Ethel, the manicurist of the shop, under whose charms he immediately succumbs. The unfortunate customers who happen to fall into the none-too-gentle hands of Pokes suffer all kinds of tortures, even Ethel herself receiving rather rough usage from him. Pokes is notified by the police to be on the look-out for a desperate convict who has recently escaped from jail, and whose chief mark of identification is the absence of one-half of his mustache. The police realize that the convict will head for a barber shop as soon as possible in order to remove the tell-tale half of his mustache, so hence after the warning to Pokes, they set in to watch the shop. The police warning gives Pokes the idea of securing revenge on Jabbs, Ethel's sweetheart, whose face is adorned by a beautiful hirsute growth of which both he and Ethel are inordinately fond. Finding Jabbs asleep in the barber chair, Pokes seizes the opportunity to shave off one half of his rival's mustache. This incident succeeds in getting Jabbs very much in wrong with the police who happen to see him walking from the shop and give chase. In the station house Jabbs finds Spook and his pal who have also been arrested on the charge of fishing on private grounds, and for a time things look black for the unfortunate trio, until the real convict who has been arrested in the meantime, is brought in. On being cleared of the charges, Jabbs accompanies Spook home where they wreak the full vengeance upon Pokes for the trouble that he has brought upon them. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less
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Louis Burstein
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Updated Feb 25, 1916
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Feb 25, 1916 (United States)

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3 cast members
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Bobby Burns's primary photo
Bobby Burns
Pokes Pokes   See fewer
Ups and Downs (1915)
Walter Stull's primary photo
Walter Stull
Jabbs Jabbs   See fewer
Ups and Downs (1915)
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Ethel Marie Burton
Ethel - the Manicurist (as Ethel Burton) Ethel - the Manicurist (as Ethel Burton)   See fewer
Frenzied Finance (1916)
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