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  • A Tangle in Hearts (1915)
  • Short | Short, Comedy
A Tangle in Hearts (1915)
Short | Short, Comedy
When the pocketbook is empty, the easiest way to keep out of trouble is to stay at home nights. Harry Jones knows it now, but only at the expense of a tangle in hearts. Poor Harry loved company, but he didn't dare join the boys at ...See moreWhen the pocketbook is empty, the easiest way to keep out of trouble is to stay at home nights. Harry Jones knows it now, but only at the expense of a tangle in hearts. Poor Harry loved company, but he didn't dare join the boys at billiards. His pocketbook looked as if an elephant had stepped on it. Not wishing to spend the evening alone, he decided to be a "fireside companion" and call on Rose, since it cost nothing extra. Harry togged himself out in evening clothes. He looked so prosperous and presentable that Rose's managing mamma determined he was the happy man on whom she would wish her daughter. Harry never knew how it happened, but at the end of the evening Rose was in his arms softly whispering "Yes." Behind the portieres Mamma had directed the entire campaign. "Well, I'm in for it," sighed Harry on his way home. He wondered how he was going to go through with it, but he was too gentlemanly to go back to Rose and say he had made a mistake. So the next day he bought an engagement ring, getting it for "nothing down and fifty cents a week for the rest of your life." Troubles never some singly. With the engagement ring in his pocket Harry reached the office to find a beautiful stenographer had just been employed. It was a case of love at first sight, and the young lady was equally interested. Then, when Harry felt the box in his pocket containing the engagement ring for Rose, his blood ran cold. Rose was having her own troubles. She had only accepted Harry because her mother had willed it. She was still heart free when she met Joe in his gasoline buggy. There was a twinkle in her eye that made Joe turn his roadster into the curb. She smiled. He bowed. She spoke. He answered. And so it started. Who wouldn't and couldn't love a man with an automobile? So Rose had her mother write Harry that she loved another. In the letter the mother asked Harry to investigate Joe Bangs, since she knew nothing of the man Rose had chosen, much against her mother's wishes. Harry was glad Rose's mother liked him, and he was delighted to find himself free. Immediately he proposed to Bess, the new stenographer, and was accepted. They decide to marry at three o'clock. At that hour, Joe and Rose plan to elope. Harry mistakes another man for Joe Bangs when he goes to investigate. As the man is spooning with Joe's stenographer, Harry has a pretty story to tell Rose's mother. The mother promptly faints, which makes Harry late for his appointment. Bess is angrily leaving the church when Joe and Rose break down in the automobile nearby. Harry is hurrying to the church and sees the couple tinkering with the machine. He tells Rose that Joe is a base deceiver, not knowing that the real Joe is under the machine. Having her doubts of Joe and thinking Harry a sure thing. Rose falls on Harry's neck. Now Harry is in for it. Bess is marching down the street like a fury because he left her "waiting at the church," and Rose is telling him she loves him when he doesn't in the least care for her. Fortunately, at this moment, Joe crawls out from under the car. When Rose gives him a tongue lashing, Harry is puzzled. This is not the man he saw in Joe Bangs' office spooning with the stenographer. Bess arrives and thinks them all crazy. When it is explained that Harry was mistaken in the man he thought was Joe, the hearts are untangled. Joe turns to Rose and Harry turns to Bess. Wedding bells, as soon as they can get the automobile started. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less
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Richard Garrick
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Updated Dec 5, 1915
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Dec 5, 1915 (United States)

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