Page:Star Film Catalogue 1908.pdf/141

 the glue; this done he awakens them and skedaddles. The officers now begin to tear and tug, but they are as tight as the Siamese Twins. But the spirit of vengeance seizes them both, and shedding their coats, they make for the glue man and catch him. In the presence of a large crowd they spread his own glue on the seat of his trousers and stick him up against a door. Kicking and blustering, he begs to be liberated, and finally the entire crowd mercifully pries him off with crowbars. But a portion of his trousers being left on the door causes much embarrassment, which an onlooker endeavors to remedy by sitting him down on a glue-smeared sheet of paper. The film ends with the hawker making frantic attempts to free himself from the sticky paper.

A well-dressed gentleman is thrown into a barren cell by a jail keeper and left there. It develops that this gentleman is none other than the chief of the regions below, and he now proceeds to furnish his room in proper style. First he causes a fireplace to appear in its proper place and then from somewhere in the atmosphere he snatches ornaments which he places thereon. From his coat tails he takes a large picture and makes enough other pictures from this to hang around the walls. In quick succession, and in the most curious ways, he fixes up a table with white cloth and viands, the dishes for which he extracts from his silk hat. He is just about to begin to eliminate the food when it occurs to him that he ought to have a companion. He takes a dress and hat from somewhere and places them in their proper position on a chair, and in a second a smiling little lady is sipping wine with him in the most approved fashion. While they are thus engaged the jailer enters, and alarmed goes off for help. While he is gone Mephisto causes the lady to disappear and then raging about the room causes all the furnishings to disappear in as many curious ways as he had employed to place them in the room. The two jailers enter just in time to see him dive through the fireplace. They attempt to pursue him but they are thrown to the ground suddenly by a burst of flame, from which Mephisto appears, garbed in all the fiery splendor of his domain. He vanishes just as suddenly and naught is left the jailers but to limp off, nursing their bruises.

It shows an artist at work on a portrait of a girl in oriental costume resting on a divan. While the painter is thus engaged he takes occasional refreshment from a bottle which he has standing near him; and each time that he sets the bottle down his innocent-looking man servant, who squats near him, takes some generous pulls from the master's whiskey. He is caught, however, and the painter puts the bottle in another place, unconsciously substituting instead two vessels containing paint. These the unthinking servant seizes, and is greedily disposing of the contents when the untasty fluid has its effect and he begins to prance about the room in agony. The painter realizes what has occurred and gives him a sound thrashing, terminating his operations by striking him with a sword; the man drops limp, and the painter, in an attempt to cover up the crime, wraps the form up in a white sheet and places it in a trunk. He then drinks himself into a stupor. While he is in this state the lid of the trunk rises and the servant emerges. At the same time the figure in the picture takes life, the girl stepping out of the frame