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No Smoking (1915)
Short | Short, Comedy

No Smoking (1915)

Short | Short, Comedy

Wilkens is a "bear" at smoking, pipe, cigarette, cigar or anything to an old boot can't get by him. His good old Aunt Julia has a bundle of coin but hates smoke and all who use tobacco in any form. Wilkins needs $10,000 to set himself up ...See moreWilkens is a "bear" at smoking, pipe, cigarette, cigar or anything to an old boot can't get by him. His good old Aunt Julia has a bundle of coin but hates smoke and all who use tobacco in any form. Wilkins needs $10,000 to set himself up in business, and decides Aunt Julia will have to be the goat for the loan. He invites the "old girl" to come to his home for a visit, and then remembers her dislike for "the weed." Accordingly he decides to humor her and bar tobacco from his home during her stay. He admits to her how he, to, hates smoking, all the while battling with himself to keep from unconsciously "lighting up." Aunt Julia, with her "Sherlock eye," finds a stray bundle of ashes lying about, and to her questions Wilkens explains that it is naught but tooth powder, which, of course, Julia insists upon trying. Then his meerschaum pipe, which he values more than life, slips into sight in some way, and it is blamed upon the janitor, who gladly walks off with the prize. After dinner Wilken, with his usual habit, carelessly inserts a cigarette in his face, and is forced to swallow it when Aunt Julia turns about and sees him, explaining it was a lady finger. Finley, a non-smoking friend of Wilkens, happens in with a choice box of cigars, for which he has no use and which he gives to Wilkens. Ananias is made to look like a piker by the explanations which are offered as to the contents of the bundle. Then, with Finley, he sneaks away to the "den" to enjoy a short smoke. Aunt Julia, passing the door, sees the stream of smoke coming from the keyhole and enters. Wilkens palms off the cigar on Finley, and, getting the idea, Finley, to save his friend, begins to smoke, but being of a lady's heart he soon nearly passes away in his sacrifice. Finally, unable to stand it longer, Wilkens lights up, just as Aunt Julia comes to the room to arrange for the loan. He is cornered, and with no place to hide the weed, puts it in his pocket, where it rests uncomfortably against the skin amid Wilkens' contortions. With the bursting of the trousers pocket into flames Aunt Julia discovers the deception and leaves with her bank roll undisturbed, and with Wilkens still in a quandary as to who will fall for the $10,000 loan. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less

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5 cast members

Name	Known for
Billie Reeves Wilkins Wilkins See fewer	The Substitute (1915)
Arthur Matthews Finley Finley See fewer	Ignorance (1916)
Carrie Reynolds Mrs. Wilkins Mrs. Wilkins See fewer	A Mother's Confession (1915)
Jessie Terry Aunt Julia Aunt Julia See fewer	Heartaches (1915)
Charles Griffiths The Janitor The Janitor See fewer	Billie's Double (1916)