Cartoons in the Hotel

The film opens with a scene in a hotel lobby. Bobby, the bellboy, is busily engaged in a perusal of "The Grouch Chaser." Mae, the telephone operator, is attending to everything but the switchboard. A travelling man enters and soon is telling a story. Bobby is apparently dissatisfied with the way in which the story was told and refers them to "The Grouch Chaser," which contains a cartoon illustrating the same idea. "Tales of Silas Bunkum" is the first tickler. Silas tells his yarns in such a way as to hold the attention of all in the lobby. The salesman takes hold of Mae's hand, and caresses it fondly. There is a large solitaire diamond on the hand. The hook is again referred to and Silas is seen to be the target for all kinds of fruit and vegetables. A crook, meantime, has entered and removed the ring from Mae's finger, she being too absorbed in "The Grouch Chaser" to notice it. She discovers her loss later and accuses the salesman. The crook is unsuspected and goes to register

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