John R. Cumpson

A short silent comedy in which Billy, who has lied to his wife so that he can go out on the town wi…

Billy is out for a stroll when he spies a prepossessing-looking young woman. He follows and she ent…

It's a busy day at the office, and the stenographer is exhausted from trying to keep up with the de…

Mr. Bumptious insists on wallpapering the parlor himself, in order to save money.

A philandering husband arranges an ill-planned rendezvous at the same restaurant his wife and daugh…

A young wife instigates a duel between a dashing count, with whom she has been having an affair, an…

An orphaned girl raised by a miner in the wilderness falls in love with a tenderfoot, even though t…

An honest man trades places with a convict so the convict can see his dying wife, but he is killed…

All the young men in the mining camp flirt with Lucy. Bud, the youngest of them, doesn't stand a ch…

This might be termed a comedy of errors, for the overzealousness of a lot of good-hearted simple fo…

A woman in love with an unsuccessful author tries to convince a publisher to accept his work.

Mr. Jones jumps to the wrong conclusions when he sees a bouquet of flowers and a man's hat in the p…