Rupert's Rube Relation - Production & Contact Info (original) (raw)

The other artists in the city studio called Rupert the "rural Bohemian." He was always talking about the dear old farm, and big-hearted Josh Jenkins, his uncle, who held the backwoods record for milking cows and eating cabbage. The only ...See moreThe other artists in the city studio called Rupert the "rural Bohemian." He was always talking about the dear old farm, and big-hearted Josh Jenkins, his uncle, who held the backwoods record for milking cows and eating cabbage. The only drawbacks to the farm, the young man claimed, were that it had a mortgage and no running water. Rupert's merry companions decided that life would be a blank until they met "Uncle Josh." So they lured him to the city by a letter, pretending to be from Rupert, offering to pay off the mortgage if he called at the studio at a certain hour on a certain evening. And they managed things so that Rupert was away at the time, and they led the old man to "Denny's". "Denny's" was a cabaret, run at high speed, and their intention was to make "the poor rube's eyes stick out." The results, however, were not what they had anticipated. A young lady danced upon a table. Beautiful young ladies usually did that at "Denny's." Was Uncle Josh shocked? He was not. When dared to duplicate the performance he did and danced so lightly and well, that the young lady who preceded him left the place with tears of mortification. Then came a number not on the bill. A sweet girl was annoyed by a masher, and the bouncer tried to put him out. But it was the bouncer who was bounced. Then the odious man resumed his ogling, until the girl cried in anguish, "Is there no hero who will dare all for a poor working girl?" And again it was Uncle Josh who responded to the call of the afflicted. He punched and manhandled that masher, until he mashed all the mashing out of him. and then he threw him out of doors. Rupert arrived at the restaurant a few minutes later. He had learned where his uncle was, and trailed him to "Denny's" despite many mishaps en route. When he got there he was just in time to congratulate Uncle Josh, who had accepted the late bouncer's place at a salary sufficient to pay off the mortgage within a short time. Moral: When a "rube" wakes up, there is usually something doin'. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less