Twice in the Same Place

• 1917
• Other, Comedy

Jack has little except a large heart, full of love for Maida, who lives across the hall with Ethel, and is wedded to her art studies. Jack, to loosen uncle's purse-strings, has told him that he, Jack, is married and a happy father. Uncle drops in suddenly and Jack prevails upon Maida to impersonate his wife, while a baby is borrowed from a neighbor, Stella. Uncle is completely fooled and decides to spend the night with Jack and his "wife," sleeping on the couch in the front room. As a way out, Jack proposes marrying Maida at once, and she has to consent. Jack brings an unwilling minister up the fire-escape. A witness is needed and Ethel has to come up the fire-escape, but gets in the front room with uncle. An officer, chasing a burglar, comes in uncle's room, and uncle, to save Ethel, tells the policeman that she is his wife. Meanwhile the burglar is acting as witness for Jack and Maida, and Stella is trying to recover her baby. The policeman leaves, threatening to return for proof of uncle's proper relations with Ethel. The minister, passing uncle's window, is again pressed into service, while the fleeing burglar again is witness. Jack and Maida come in just as the knot is tied on uncle, and the policeman, returning, captures the crook. Stella bursts in to get her baby, and the whole scheme is revealed, with congratulations all around.