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Learn more- Billy is an automobile salesman. His wedding day is set and the minister has called for a dress rehearsal. Ethel, his bride-to-be, awaits him at her home, but near the hour set for the rehearsal, Billy gets a chance to sell an automobile. The fact that the prospective purchaser is a pretty girl does not lessen Billy's desire to make a sale; he reluctantly takes the girl on a demonstration trip at a time dangerously near the hour for his wedding rehearsal. The journey meets several halts, and slight mishaps puts the demonstration trip behind its tentative schedule. To get back to town on time, Billy must order his chauffeur to "speed"--and the order amounts to mentioning the chauffeur's middle name. Fairly flying over the turnpike, Billy sees the rehearsal easy to make on time--until he is halted by the town constable for speeding. Resisting the officer only lands Billy in jail. His belligerence gets him a ten-day sentence, and it is only through the ingenuity of his "best man" that Billy even gets to his wedding--without a rehearsal. Pleadings in vain, the Justice of Peace insists that Billy shall serve his term. The best man brings a pot of red paint, Billy decorates his face with red flecks, and the jailer spreads the alarm that Billy has smallpox. The best man awaits results, outside the jail, with the engine running in a high-power machine. In the rush to get out of reach, Billy finds himself alone in the jail, and soon exits for his "joy ride" to the wedding party.
Moving Picture World, October 5, 1918
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