The Promoter
Bertie's landlady is on a rampage. She wants her money, but Bertie is broke. At dinner that night one of the boarders, a would-be stock broker, explains the mining stock game to Bertie. The same evening the broker and two friends ...
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"Bertie and his boarding house friends furnish most of the fun in this breezy comedy. In it grim truth is seen peeping over humor's shoulder now and then; for Bertie is fooled by a scamp mining company promoter and made a very effective catspaw of. widows and country clergymen, deceived by Bertie's honest look, buy the worthless paper. Bertie goes to prison, but not for his crime of swindling. It was because he couldn't pay a dinner bill. He also is shown as winning much money at a poker game. These things may make some people look askance at the picture, which otherwise is comme..."
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Bertie's landlady is on a rampage. She wants her money, but Bertie is broke. At dinner that night one of the boarders, a would-be stock broker, explains the mining stock game to Bertie. The same evening the broker and two friends ...