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Papa's Darling

🎞️ Movie 20 min --
1914

The daughter of a Wall Street broker asks her father to give her a trip to Europe. She is refused. She suggests to her father that he sign an agreement with her to the effect that if she can make enough money in three months to pay for the trip he will permit her to take it. He takes it as a joke, but signs. Ethel then endeavors to get a position, but finds that chances for work are all for the men. Finally, when almost in tears and entirely discouraged she decides to don man's attire. She deceives even her own father as to her sex and obtains work in his office where she falls in love with Billy, her father's general manager. She reads a telegram giving a "sure thing" tip on the market and gets Billy to invest her money. She wins. She goes into the private office to put the money in her stocking and is surprised by a mouse. Her sex, getting the better of her she screams, throwing her wig at the mouse. Billy enters, and is surprised and happy to find that she is a girl, having been unable to account for "his" peculiar attractiveness. Father gives her the trip to Europe as a honeymoon.

Cast

Ethel Grandin
Ethel Grandin
Ethel
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William E. Shay
Ethel's Papa