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  • That Popular Tune (1910)
  • Short | Short, Comedy
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That Popular Tune (1910)
Short | Short, Comedy
Blinks goes to the theater, where he hears it first. Mlle. Tinee sings it; is repeatedly encored and continues to sing it until Blinks leaves the theater in disgust. Blinks enters a restaurant, orders a big meal and is about to eat ...See moreBlinks goes to the theater, where he hears it first. Mlle. Tinee sings it; is repeatedly encored and continues to sing it until Blinks leaves the theater in disgust. Blinks enters a restaurant, orders a big meal and is about to eat heartily when the orchestra merrily strikes up the latest rag. "Twinkling Eyes." Blinks upsets his table and after dousing the musicians, and everyone else, with a cold spray from the seltzer bottle, angrily leaves the restaurant. Blinks goes to his office, and finds his stenographer humming the piece, and Johnny, the office boy, playing it on a mouth organ. Blinks destroys both the sheet music and the mouth organ and in disgust leaves the office. He enters a barber shop and is in the midst of a shave when the colored bootblack whistles it gaily, whereat Blinks leaps from the chair, and upsetting the surprised darkey, dashes out of the door. Blinks goes home, but is again upset when his neighbors in the flat below begin singing and playing "Twinkling Eye." Blinks goes down and insists on their cutting out the music. For his pains Blinks is thrown out of the window and alights at the feet of an Italian organ grinder, who is also playing the new air. Night comes, and Blinks goes to bed, but the little German band comes serenading him with their choice selection, "Twinkling Eyes." Blinks hurls a pitcher of water at the musicians, then returns to bed. But in his dreams he relives the scenes of the day, while the melody of that popular tune continues to ring in his ears. Blinks awakens and gives up hope, while his rolling eyes and the painful droop of his mouth indicate that he is another candidate for the dippy house. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less
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Updated Nov 22, 1910
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Nov 22, 1910 (United States)

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