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  • Shorty Reduces the High Cost of Living (1917)
  • Short | Short, Drama
Shorty Reduces the High Cost of Living (1917)
Short | Short, Drama
Shorty and the Chinese cook raise potatoes on Arrowhead Ranch in anticipation of a rising market. A freak potato is fixed up by the boys to look like a Chinese god and placed where the Chinese cook will find it. Enraged he throws it into a...See moreShorty and the Chinese cook raise potatoes on Arrowhead Ranch in anticipation of a rising market. A freak potato is fixed up by the boys to look like a Chinese god and placed where the Chinese cook will find it. Enraged he throws it into a bag of potatoes. Shorty is selling to Pete Boley, the commission merchant. Shorty goes to Los Angeles to confer with Miss Ellen Drake, of the Secret Service, who is assisting the Mayor in reducing the high cost of living. The people are rioting over the high prices, and the Mayor is trying to find out where potatoes are being held. While chatting with a grocer, Shorty obtains a clew when he notices the Chinese god potato among those the grocer bought from Jenkins, the Potato King. Meanwhile Boley phones Shorty that he has secreted a large consignment of potatoes. Shorty secretly removes the potatoes and puts them on the municipal market. The Potato King learns of the potatoes being sold at cost, and in order to keep the corner buys them in. Later learning of Shorty's trick Jenkins plans to lure him to the warehouse and make way with him. Shorty plans a supposed call from the Mayor, and Pete Boley tries to capture him. A fight follows, and Shorty is almost overpowered when the police arrive. Jenkins and his men are taken into custody, and the corner in potatoes broken. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less
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Robert Gray (as Bob Gray)
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Updated Apr 9, 1917
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Apr 9, 1917 (United States)

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