John Gary, a hotel owner, who wants to revitalize his business. After reading about a reported mermaid sighting, he has his daughter Ethel pose as a mermaid and gets a newspaper reporter to witness and photograph the mermaid. The publicity results in the hotel becoming famous, but Ethel eventually discloses the joke to the guests of the hotel in her mermaid suit.
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United States 29 July 1910
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01 March 1910
A detective saves a clerk from a gang who tie him to a clock-operated gun.
25 September 1910
A young girl living in Salem attracts the attentions of The Puritan. After he's brushed off by the girl, he becomes furious and desiring revenge, declares to a council of elders that the girl and her mother are witches.
12 February 1910
Mr. Josh Banks a ranchman, receives word that his niece, a pretty Chicago girl of eighteen, is on her way to make them a visit.
05 March 1910
The film pictures scenes on a big ostrich farm in Southern California, near Los Angeles. A large flock of several hundred of the big birds are seen feeding.
17 January 1910
Grace Wallace was the only child of a widow of decidedly meager means. Mr. Rupert Howland, a widower of considerable wealth, the father of a girl child, and an old friend of the family, often surreptitiously helped them.
10 November 1910
A pretty young woman attempts to help a poor, old couple while attracting the attention of a handsome doctor.
01 September 1910
A display of flower bouquets, rotating to show the Kinemacolour process.
16 May 1910
Four gentlemen are talking in a beer-garden; during a short absence of one of them, who pretends to be an art lover, the others decide to make a prank on him.
15 November 1910
Paul and Virginia are two young lovers who have grown up together from infancy on an island in the Indies.
06 July 1910
Film recording of a controversial boxing match with the first black heavyweight champion fighting a white retired former champion.
29 October 1910
An impressive Vitagraph short, one of many popular firemen-to-the-rescue films of the time.
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