Elsie's Uncle - Production & Contact Info (original) (raw)

In a girls' seminary, Elsie Gladdon, a regular hoyden, and in love with Jack, a student in the university across the street, finds the life frightfully irksome, and the seminary matron decides that the girl is well-nigh incorrigible. Elsie...See moreIn a girls' seminary, Elsie Gladdon, a regular hoyden, and in love with Jack, a student in the university across the street, finds the life frightfully irksome, and the seminary matron decides that the girl is well-nigh incorrigible. Elsie plans one of her escapades in the shape of a midnight taffy feast in her room, and invites Jack to crawl up to the window on the second floor so she could give him some of the candy. Alas, Bob. the bitter rival, learns of the affair and plans revenge. Accordingly when Jack is up the ladder, Bob yanks the ladder from under him. Jack scrambles into Elsie's room, narrowly escaping a fall. The falling ladder crashes into a window on the ground floor, frightening the poor matron to death. To complete his revenge Bob tells the police that there is a burglar in the girls' seminary and the minion of the law goes there in all haste. After a short search Jack is discovered and dragged out of the wardrobe in Elsie's room, his feet tightly adhered to a pan of taffy. The matron expels Elsie, and writes for her Uncle Barney to come and take her home. Uncle Barney, who has threatened Elsie with a future in a convent if she does not finish Miss Clanger's school successfully, starts for the seminary. Elsie is terror-struck. She sees before her visions of a secluded life in a convent, far away from her lover, Jack. So she writes Jack and tells him to get someone who resembles Uncle Barney to come to the school and take her away. She also sends him a photograph of her uncle. Jack decides to fix himself up to resemble Uncle Barney. So does the rival Bob, who learns of the scheme and decides to get there first. The rival's plan works successfully for he arrives at the seminary first and whisks Elsie away, but Jack discovers this, starts in pursuit and manages to communicate with her. Meanwhile Uncle Barney arrives and learns that an impostor has taken Elsie away. The police are at once notified and start in search of the culprit. Hurrying to the police station, Uncle Barney encounters the two rivals fighting, who run at his approach. Uncle Barney leads Elsie away in rightful indignation, but the blundering police, relying in their information, believe him to be the offender and carry him off to the station house. Jack follows them, remaining on the outside, and talking to Elsie through the open window. Then Jack flounces in, declares himself the real uncle and carries Elsie away. Uncle Barney storms up and down, threatening the law with all sorts of vengeance. Then the rival, Bob, is arrested and taken to the station where the surprised justice declares that the woods are full of uncles. Uncle Barney jerks the false whiskers and mustache from the rival's face and proves that his own are real. Securing his release he hurries to the railroad station just in time to see Jack and Elsie on the rear platform of a fast departing train. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less