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Boosting Business

  • 1913
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ComedyShort

Jim Barratt, a baking powder salesman, arrives in the town of St. Charles and finds that business is miserably slow. Barratt originates a clever scheme by which he will not leave empty hande... Read allJim Barratt, a baking powder salesman, arrives in the town of St. Charles and finds that business is miserably slow. Barratt originates a clever scheme by which he will not leave empty handed. He writes a note, stating that Charles, the grocer, had not found the $100 bill that ha... Read allJim Barratt, a baking powder salesman, arrives in the town of St. Charles and finds that business is miserably slow. Barratt originates a clever scheme by which he will not leave empty handed. He writes a note, stating that Charles, the grocer, had not found the $100 bill that had been packed in one of the cans of baking powder. This Barratt accidentally drops on the ... Read all

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    • John Steppling
    • Joseph Allen Sr.
    • Charles Hitchcock
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      • John Steppling
      • Joseph Allen Sr.
      • Charles Hitchcock
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    John Steppling
    John Steppling
    • Jim Barratt
    Joseph Allen Sr.
    • Joseph - 1st Storekeeper
    Charles Hitchcock
    • Charles - 2nd Storekeeper
    Eleanor Blanchard
    Eleanor Blanchard
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    deickemeyer

    The unconvincing barrenness of it becomes too apparent

    A lively farce that made a reasonable amount of hearty laughter. The situation is such that whenever action ceases for a moment, as when one or another of the players stops to laugh long and loud, the unconvincing barrenness of it becomes too apparent even for a farce. It wasn't laughed over as a whole; but a good deal of it made laughter. John Steppling plays a drummer who finds no demand for his baking powder and contrives to make the people think that a hundred dollar bill is hidden in one of the cans in stock at either Joseph Allen's or Charles Hitchcock's store. Eleanor Blanchard is the woman who spreads the news of the big bill to be found by some lucky purchaser. At the end the disillusioned women chase him out of town with his baking powder. - The Moving Picture World, May 31, 1913

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    • Release date
      • May 15, 1913 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Languages
      • None
      • English
    • Production company
      • The Essanay Film Manufacturing Company
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      • Black and White
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      • Silent
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.33 : 1

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