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Pimple's Part (1916)
 

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Pimple, dressed as an actor in the grand style, declaims in a restaurant. He alarms the waiter by thrusting a wooden dagger at him while quoting the 'Et tu Brute' speech from Julius Caesar, then frightens the clientele away by shooting a gun in Wild West fashion before posing as Napoleon. Later he is rehearsing a melodrama at home with his wife and their silhouettes on the window blind look as if he is murdering her. He is nearly arrested by a passing policeman. He retires to bed still dreaming of his lines. [Incomplete]