Alkali Ike eludes his wife and attends a performance at the Snakeville Opera House, where Prof. Hippy is demonstrating his wonderful hypnotic art. Alkali Ike is finally persuaded to go up on the stage. The professor hypnotizes him. The clever and eccentric situation that derive from Alkali being hypnotized, are excruciatingly funny.
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Augustus Carney as Alkali Ike
Margaret Joslin as Sophie Clutts
Harry Todd as Mustang Pete
David Kirkland as Professor Hippy
Victor Potel as Slippery Slim
Brinsley Shaw as Dr. Hippy
Fred Church as Rawhide Bill
United States 21 June 1913
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