The Professor's Predicament
Professor Silas Bingle, a staunch temperance advocate, starts out on a crusade against the "demon drink." He stops in front of a saloon and the first to emerge therefrom is a son of Erin, Pat Lafferty, with a kettle of beer. Bingl...
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"A farce with broad humor that made a great deal of laughter among an East Side audience. The professor is a temperance advocate and, following "the cause," he comes in contact not only with drunkenness, but with that which makes it. In a scrimmage with a barkeeper he loses his glasses and now he can't see and, smelling of liquor, he must walk as though ha were drunk. The poor professor has a hard time. - The Moving Picture World, June 28, 1913..."
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Released as a split reel along with the comedy Nearly in Mourning (1913).
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Professor Silas Bingle, a staunch temperance advocate, starts out on a crusade against the "demon drink." He stops in front of a saloon and the first to emerge therefrom is a son of Erin, Pat Lafferty, with a kettle of beer. Bingl...