"THE TEN THOUSAND DOLLAR TOE"
Much Ado About Discovering a Concealed Scar
Written by GILSON WILLETS Produced by HARDEE KIRKLAND
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JERRY, dependent on his aunt for money, and sporting .about with painted females, appears blind to the superior virtues
of Jane, a splendid girl. She is taking the Kneipp Cure, and leaves the imprint of her big toe on an inked paper, showing a
large V-shaped scar. She and her aunt conspire to make use of the toe-print to redeem the weak and degenerating Jerry.
The aunt tells her nephew that if he will find a big toe having a V-shaper scar (showing him the original imprint) within a
week, that he will be allowed $10,000 a year.
Jerry concludes that the secretary of his aunt is the maiden of the scarred toe, and follows her to a Turkish bath. He bribes
the maid to get an imprint on inked paper, and then finds out that he has chosen the wrong woman. The following morning he
sees two pretty girls ("peaches") with his aunt and her secretary, and concludes that it must be one of those two girls. He follows
the first "peach" to the chiropodist's, gets an imprint of the girl's toe, making her howl with pain and rage, but finds no scar. The
following morning he follows the second "peach" to a shoe-shop, pretends that he is a shoe clerk, and cuts off the toe of the girl's
stocking, getting an imprint by force, making her howl with mortification, but finds no scar. Later, in passing a hospital, he meets
two "peaches" coming out on crutches, each with foot heavily bandaged. They attack Jerry with their crutches and drive him off in
Jerry, who now has his own arm in sling, a day later observes three pretty girls ("beauts") in his aunt's garden and declares it
must be one of the "beauts." They are three flower girls who are to appear at a charity concert in barefoot dances. He attends
the entertainment and takes advantage of the squares of black tile by smearing shoe blacking over them in order to get imprint of
the dancers' feet. They soil their draperies on this and indignantly attack Jerry as the base
of their trouble.
His week is up on Saturday morning, and he appears much bandaged and mussed up as
a result of his daring adventures. Another quartette of beauties appears at his aunt's and
walk across the lawn, taking the Kneipp Cure, he following with a magnifying glass to catch
their footsteps as they pass, but fails to detect the telling trace. His time is almost up. Jane
decides to help him out. She pretends her foot is asleep, and asks him to rub it, which he
does, like any gentleman, and naturally looks at her big toe first and to fortune. When he
finds the V-shaped scar he simply whoops for joy. They beat it on a run for aunty's. This
is the last of the series of comedy scenes of uproarious nature comprised in this play.
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SCENES IN AERIO LAND
One of Selig's Educationals.
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