Miss Olympia

Date1931

Can DescriptionsAmateur comic drama. Two boys playing tennis and two girls talking. They all run to hear letter read. The girls talk about arriving 'personality.' The little boys hold a toy gun and talk about going to meet her. All seem excited. Meyer tries to smoke pipe but is told it will be offensive to the arriving Miss Olympia. The girls plan to show her up. Everyone prepares for the arrival. All load in the boat and go to meet the arriving ferry. 'Miss Olympia' appears, looking pretentious. She agrees to show the locals how to improve themselves aesthetically and shows them how to dance. The girls laugh but later join in. Miss Olympia shows them how to swim. Then the real Miss Olympia arrives, svelte and charming. Impostor is found and asked to leave. She grabs float and swims away. TITLES: [beginning titles and initial frames received separately with acc.1082; the segment is now spliced at beginning of Reel 25 where it belongs] 'Dear Miss Freely, I am arriving in Drinkwater Hollow tomorrow and will be delighted to give one day to the village improvement society. Yours sportingly, Miss Olympia 1909 All Around Champion of Weehawken.' 'She'll probably be as impossible as a thirteen collar on a fourteen shirt.' 'We'll all go to meet her.' 'You slothful creature! Why don't you give up that filthy habit? What will Miss Olympia think?' 'Any more of this Miss Olympia and you and I are going to get a divorce.' 'Isn't this Miss Olympia business the nerts? Let's show her up.' 'Getting ready for the arrival of Miss Olympia.' 'Going to meet the champion.' 'Here she is! We're the women's committee.' 'We wonder if you would show us how to express ourselves. Our lives are so suppressed.' 'Miss Swiftly--W-w-w-well, I'll be glad to show you what I know.' 'Oh, goody goody. We'll get into our costumes.' 'Miss Olympia shows expressing as is expressing.' 'Miss Swiftly is prevailed upon to show some fine points in swimming.' 'I'm sorry I'm late. I missed the boat.' 'You're Miss Olympia! Let's find that Floozey.' 'You impostor! Leave this place immediately.' Meyer Davis Logbook: ''No Mother to Guide Her' 'Miss Olympia' with Doris Monteux. 'A Rolling Stone is Worth Two in the Bush.''

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