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  • The Jenkins-Perkins War (1912)
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The Jenkins-Perkins War (1912)
Short | Short, Comedy
Sallie Jenkins and Billy Perkins are engaged to be married. Their fathers go to a political meeting. Old man Perkins is a rank Roosevelt man, and old man Jenkins is a Wilsonite. They have a fierce quarrel at the meeting. On their return ...See moreSallie Jenkins and Billy Perkins are engaged to be married. Their fathers go to a political meeting. Old man Perkins is a rank Roosevelt man, and old man Jenkins is a Wilsonite. They have a fierce quarrel at the meeting. On their return they find their children making love and separate them. Billy sends a note to his sweetheart, which asks her to meet him in his auto, and they would go to town and get married. Each one leaves a note to their fathers, telling them what they intended to do. Tbe respective parents discover the notes and drive after them. There is an explosion in the automobile, which gives the parents an opportunity to catch up with them. The parents take their children home. At early dawn Billy, disconsolate, decides to commit suicide and throw himself into the river. He leaves a note to his father to this effect, and, tearing up the sheets of the bed, makes a rope of them and exits by the window. Sallie, also very disconsolate, decides to commit suicide at the same place, and leaves a note to her father, telling him of her intention, and also makes a rope of the sheets of the bed and descends from the window. Billy arrives at the boathouse. On the dock are a number of boats piled one on top of another, so that one cannot see from one side to the other. Billy arrives on one side, looks at the water, gets cold feet and sits down to think, drawing his hat down. As he does so, Sallie arrives on the other side of the boat, throws her gloves and pocket-book on the pier, looks at the water, gets cold feet and decides to wait. Those moments are fatal, for it gives the old people a chance to catch up and spoils the dual suicide, but Jenkins and Perkins make up and the merry war is called off. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less
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Updated Nov 29, 1912
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Nov 29, 1912 (United States)

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