- Mr. and Mrs. O'Malley inherit three million dollars. Mrs. O'Malley devotes all her time to temperance issues. Mr. O'Malley decides to hang around burlesque shows and becomes infatuated with Carrie, an actress. Unbeknownst to him, O'Malley's son John is also infatuated with Carrie. Carrie jokingly tells John that the man she marries must have at least half a million dollars. John discovers his father and Carrie together in a café. Mrs. O'Malley arrives with her temperance friends, so John and his father hide. John then places a blank check in front of his father and tells him to sign it for half a million, or else he will tell his mother what is going on. Mr. O'Malley submits, and John wins Carrie.—scsu1975
- A contented family of toilers are the O'Malleys, consisting of Mr. and Mrs. O'Malley and their son, John. There comes the glad tidings that Mr. O'Malley inherited $3,000,000.39. Immediately a great change comes into all their lives. Mrs. O'Malley becomes an up-lifter and devotes all her time to the temperance cause, while John becomes a regular stage door Johnnie. The poor neglected father is forced to go to a burlesque show for recreation and becomes infatuated with Carrie, the leading lady. Son John is also smitten with Carrie, but she treats his proposal very flippantly and jokingly says the man she marries must have at least half a million dollars. Son and father don't know of each other's infatuation for Carrie, and the old man has a hard job dodging the waiting son at the stage door, when he leaves with Carrie to take her to a cabaret café. John finally discovers his father and Carrie in the café. In the meanwhile Mrs. O'Malley decides that the cabaret cafés are luring men to drink and marches into the café at the head of her band of up-lifters. John and Old Man O'Malley see Mother O'Malley coming and hide. This is John's chance. Placing a blank check in front of his daddy he tells him to sign the check for half a million or he will call mother. O'Malley has to submit to this blackmail, and signs the check with which John wins Carrie's promise to marry him.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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