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The members of a moving picture company, including William King, a handsome leading man, arrive at a small town to get some "snow stuff." The deacon's daughter, Josephine, on her return from boarding school, arrives on the same train and ...See moreThe members of a moving picture company, including William King, a handsome leading man, arrive at a small town to get some "snow stuff." The deacon's daughter, Josephine, on her return from boarding school, arrives on the same train and her father meets her at the depot. Presently Josephine sees the moving picture actors, and becomes greatly interested in the leading man, who piles on a sled with the other fellow actors as they drive off to the village inn. The deacon catches Josephine flirting with the handsome leading acting man and tells her to beware of actors. At home Josephine learns the identity of the actor in looking over a magazine devoted to the picture industry. Later in the day the director of the company, in search of a location, obtains consent from Josephine to take a scene in front of the Deacon's place. When the Deacon sees the rehearsal in progress he rushes out and drives the actors away. But King and Josephine have fallen in love with each other, and plan to circumvent the Deacon. King makes up as a city doctor with the indispensable pointed beard, and is abetted in love's conspiracy both by the leading woman of the company, who makes up as a professional nurse, and the landlord of the inn. Josephine at home pretends to be very ill, and her father proposes to send for Dr. Smith, the village physician, but she protests that her case is too serious to be trifled with, and suggests that there might be a city doctor stopping at the hotel. The minister calls the hotel on the wire and learns that there is a city doctor there. King is told and he and the leading woman, arrayed as nurse, are soon on the way to the Deacon's house. Upon arriving King sends the Deacon and his wife out of Josephine's room under the pretext that the case is so serious that the patient must be left alone with the nurse and himself for forty minutes. After the anxious parents have retired to the living room, Josephine undergoes a record-breaking recovery, and pulls her suitcase, previously packed, from under the bed. It is apparent that an elopement is under way, as we next see King, Josephine and the nurse making a hasty exit through the window into the street. Finally the Deacon listens at the keyhole of Josephine's bedroom and, failing to hear voices inside, opens the door and rushes into the room where he finds a note from Josephine stating that she is to be married to the leading man before taking the train to the city and asking her parents' forgiveness. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less