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A Mix-Up on the Plains (1914)
Short | Short, Western

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A Mix-Up on the Plains (1914)

Short | Short, Western

Sid Hopkins advertises for a village school teacher, while at the same time, Dan Sawyer comes to town and advertises for a female cook for his ranch. Both advertisements appear in the same issue of a large city paper, and two applicants ...See moreSid Hopkins advertises for a village school teacher, while at the same time, Dan Sawyer comes to town and advertises for a female cook for his ranch. Both advertisements appear in the same issue of a large city paper, and two applicants are secured by mail. As one school teacher has eloped, Hopkins takes precautions to prevent the other from following suit. He sends his handyman to meet the teacher, while Sawyer sends a cowboy to meet the cook. Both emissaries arrive at the station, and become so much interested in something else that the teacher alights from the train and goes into the waiting room. When the men realize their real mission, they observe only the cook, who has been left standing upon the platform. Both insist that they were sent to meet her and it ends in a rough and tumble fight. Hopkins' man is the victor and takes home the cook instead of the teacher; while the cowboy, later discovering the teacher at the station, rushes her off to the ranch. The cook, confronted with the precautions taken to keep the teacher in a state of single blessedness, thinks she has fallen into a community of maniacs. The teacher, however, who is a failure as a cook, is immediately successful in winning the heart of the chief of cowboys. Sawyer soon finds out the mix-up and goes to Hopkins' house to trade the teacher for the cook. On the way to town the teacher and her lover are married. Hopkins is willing to make the trade, but the teacher shows him her wedding ring, so the laugh is on him, and he demolishes all of his placarded precautions and merely advertises for "a homely old maid to teach school." Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less

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6 cast members

Name	Known for
William Duncan Actor Actor See fewer	The Steel Trail (1923)
Florence Dye The Schoolteacher The Schoolteacher See fewer	The Scapegoat (1912)
Charles Wheelock Actor Actor See fewer	The Man from Manhattan (1916)
Lester Cuneo Actor Actor See fewer	Western Grit (1924)
Gladys Cuneo Actress Actress See fewer	A Romance of the Forest Reserve (1914)
Eleanor Blevins Actress Actress See fewer	A Friend in Need (II) (1914)