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At Liberty -- Good Press Agent (1912)
Short | Comedy, Short

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At Liberty -- Good Press Agent (1912)

Short | Comedy, Short

He limped along the Rialto, so badly banged up that a friend felt impelled to ask him if he had been playing a bomb on the Mafia Circuit in the "Big Time." "It is just another case of the man getting the worst of it for making good," he ...See moreHe limped along the Rialto, so badly banged up that a friend felt impelled to ask him if he had been playing a bomb on the Mafia Circuit in the "Big Time." "It is just another case of the man getting the worst of it for making good," he explained, "I consented to go out with The Whirling Dervish Company, and I told the Governor that he would get something new in the presswork line. That big doll of a star wanted her name in the papers, but there is nothing to her, nothing at all." "They won't fall for the old stuff anymore, and I had to be up to date. We struck one town where they had a smallpox scare, and they fell for my dope alright. I told them how one of our chorus dames had smallpox, and how the star passed the night nursing her when all the others were afraid, kissed her fevered brow and all the rest of the sob stuff. They fell for it like wolves, and that big false alarm got her picture on the front page." "Was she grateful? Not a bit of it. She blamed me when the Health Department sent around and rounded up the company, quarantining them in a vacant house. Look at the ad. Why my story was reprinted all over the United States." "They'd have got out in a few weeks, and it saved them from losing money on those rotten killduff one-night stands, yet they 'beefed' awfully. So I showed them how to escape by scaring off the guards by pretending to be ghosts. I led them safely through the town to a freight train, so that they could make a getaway to the next town. Were they thankful? Nothing like it. The leading comedian and props beat me with clubs and kicked me off the train. And that big dub of a star cheered them as they were doing it." "So I've left the company. Wouldn't care to work with a company like that, for you never are appreciated. Doubt if they will stay out long, for the company is rotten, the printing punk and the bookings the worst ever. Now I am back again, and say, old man, do you know anyone who wants a press agent, a good press agent?" Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less