Henry A. Barrows – MRQE

Three’s a Crowd

Wed, 27 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Harry, The Odd Fellow, is a tenement worker who lives alone in a shack alongside a warehouse and longs for the companionship of a wife and children like other men. One day he spies a pretty girl in his telescope and sends her by carrier pigeon a note that, alas, is received by the wrong party. The Girl marries and, poverty-striken, leaves her husband during a snowstorm. Harry takes her in, and minutes later her child is born. He works like a slave for the mother and child, pretending they are his own. Meanwhile, the husband finds her and comes to the shack on Christmas Eve as Harry is preparing to play Santa Claus. Not realizing the unhappiness she is causing him, The Girl thanks him profusely and leaves with her husband. Overcome, Harry sits overnight on the doorstep and the next morning is found frozen stiff except for his eyes–with amusing results.

The Little Irish Girl

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Beautiful Dot Walker is part of a ring of crooks in San Francisco, who use her to lure impressionable young men into a crooked card game. Young Johnny has come to the big city to sell his grandmother’s hotel back in his home town, but he falls under Dot’s spell, gets suckered into the game and loses all his money. He asks his newfound “friends” to come back to his hometown to buy the hotel. They accept but are actually planning to swindle Johnny’s grandmother out of her hotel. It turns out that Granny isn’t quite the easy mark they thought she would be.

His Majesty, Bunker Bean

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

His Majesty, Bunker Bean is a 1925 silent film comedy directed by Harry Beaumont and starring Matt Moore. It is based on a 1916 play, His Majesty, Bunker Bean by Lee Wilson Dodd, taken from a novel Bunker Bean by Harry Leon Wilson. It was produced and distributed by Warner Brothers.

Drusilla with a Million

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Drusilla Doane is a charity inmate at an old-ladies’ home who inherits a million dollars. Someone leaves a baby on the porch. And someone else leaves another, and soon Drusilla, who always wanted a child of her, in now in charge of a large brood of children, and very happy about it. But there may be a problem; the real heir to the money shows up.

The Shock

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A gang of blackmailers sends a cripple to San Francisco to expose a banker they have been blackmailing. However, the cripple meets and falls in love with the banker’s daughter.

The Reckless Age

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Lord Harrowby takes out an $100,000 insurance policy to be paid if his wedding to Cecilia Meyrick is cancelled. The insurance company sends Dick Minot to make sure the wedding takes place, but he falls in love with the bride.

Sporting Youth

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Jimmy Wood, a chauffeur, is mistaken for famous racing driver Splinters Wood. Because he is deeply in debt, he enters a race on the advice of Betty Rockford, daughter of a wealthy automobile manufacturer.

The Law and the Woman

Mon, 25 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Although Margaret and Julian Rolfe are deeply in love, Rolfe has a bit of a past. At one time he had befriended Clara Foster, a woman of the streets. When he discovers that his ward Phil Long is about to wed Clara, he tries to stop him. But he finds that Long and Clara have already married, so he heads back home. When Phil is found murdered, Rolfe is arrested and tried for the crime.

The Right to Happiness

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The story of twin sisters, one raised in Russia, the other in America, and how their lives diverge and re-entangle.

For Husbands Only

Sat, 06 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000