Professor Fix was a fixer; a man of distinguished appearance, with whiskerial adornments after the fashion of Napoleon the Third, suave and polished in manner and plausible in speech it was... See full summary
Professor Fix Fixed (1909) Online
Professor Fix was a fixer; a man of distinguished appearance, with whiskerial adornments after the fashion of Napoleon the Third, suave and polished in manner and plausible in speech it was not difficult for him to separate a gullible public from its money by various fraudulent amusement schemes. So easy was the game for the professor that he grew cynical of the public's wisdom and refused to believe that any section of it had sufficient sophistication to tell the difference between a ferry boat and an office building. He was at the very pinnacle of such a mood when he launched his ventriloquist show at a certain well patronized county fair. He challenged the world with $5,000 to produce his equal in the line he pretended to excel in. Unfortunately two mischievous boys gained access to the tent and made off with the dummies for the professor's famous act. His mind was fertile, however, and he used live men dressed up as dummies and through them produced the ventriloquial results. But ...
Released as a split reel along with A Child's Prayer (1909).