Some Shimmiers-Eddie Lyons Lee Moran 1920 Universal-EYE FLM8337 OB 685721-720 x 404

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"The night that Eddie's girl announces her engagement to her friends she plans a slumming party, which does not meet with Eddie's approval but the others are so in favor of it he is compelled to go.

Eddie of course, takes every known precaution to see that the dive known as Jim's Place is safe for the party before any of them enter and after Eddie has returned to the others they all descend the steps into the dive and no sooner are they seated when Lee up and knocks one of his fellow associates to the floor. This arouses Eddie's girl's attention and she at once plays for Lee. Eddie grows jealous, and finally he clips Lee one on the jaw and sends him down for the count - a general scramble is made by the little party to get to the street and when safely by their auto, Eddie tells the others that he is going back alone to clean out the whole place, but once inside he tells Lee who meets him with a smile that his little show was a knock out and Eddie slips him twenty-five dollars for the entertainment. But Lee turns the tables on Eddie and tells him that he does not want his twenty-five dollars but the girl instead. This causes Eddie to laugh but Lee insists that she loves him and to prove it they go outside and ask the girl, she admits she is in love with Lee because of his power and brute strength and both she and Lee re-enter the dive. Eddie, struck dumb, does not know what to do, but finally decides to return to the dive to find out if Mildred is serious or just kidding and when he again asks her she tells him that Lee is her ideal of a man and Eddie is about to depart when Mildred, seeing that her little scheme has worked out, hands Lee twenty-five more than Eddie offered him and Lee then plays his part to the end and calls Eddie back - tells him to take his gal and beat it but hereafter, not to forget a woman likes to be treated rough once in a while, so Eddie proceeds to rough it up with Mildred when he gets her with the others and she glories in his spunk." (source: 1/10/1920 Universal Weekly)

Length:15:11

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Eddie Lyons (November 25, 1886 – August 30, 1926), Lee Moran (June 23, 1888 – April 24, 1961), 1920, Universal (United States)

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