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  • The Smuggled Laces (1913)
  • Short | Short, Comedy
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The Smuggled Laces (1913)
Short | Short, Comedy
Belmont returns from Europe, bringing to his wife some smuggled laces. She is delighted with them until she receives a letter from a friend of hers, whose husband is employed in the Custom House, that the government had learned of the ...See moreBelmont returns from Europe, bringing to his wife some smuggled laces. She is delighted with them until she receives a letter from a friend of hers, whose husband is employed in the Custom House, that the government had learned of the smuggled lace and advising her to get rid of it. Mrs. Belmont meets Mr. Jolly, her friend's husband. She asks him to mind the lace for her. This he does and he takes some home. His wife discovers them and accuses him of buying them for some woman. He tells her he bought them for her and presents them to her. Later Mrs. Jolly, wearing the laces, calls on Mrs. Belmont, who is horrified to see Mrs. Jolly wearing her beautiful laces. Later she meets Mr. Jolly and demands her laces back, he gives her a check for $650. Mr. Jolly informs his wife that the laces were smuggled and cost him $650. Meantime Mr. Belmont hires a gas man to pose as a Custom House Inspector to get the laces back from Mrs. Jolly, this he does and returns with the laces. However, Mrs. Belmont had bought other laces with money she received from Mr. Jolly. She was proudly showing them to Mr. Belmont when a real Custom House officer appeared and took all of them away. Mrs, Belmont explains to her husband that she had bought the other and faints dead away. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less
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Phillips Smalley
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Updated Jun 22, 1913
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Jun 22, 1913 (United States)

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