Plot

Mr. Doolittle retires to a saloon to escape his heavyweight spouse who has a habit of browbeating him for the slightest provocation. He is in fear of wifey's wrath on returning home. He is pursuing an erratic course down the street when he comes upon a Hindoo snake charmer, playing a weird melody on a strange pipe to the accompaniment of which various snakes in a basket are doing the tango. He steals the pipe and entering the house proceeds to perform his own idea of a charming melody. His wife is waiting for him with a large and healthy rolling pin. She is captivated by the strange sounds. She proceeds to wriggle her two hundred and fifty pounds in gentle and graceful serpentine motion about the floor, on the table and all over the room while Doolittle, amazed with his success, plays the harder. The maid falls in line and joins Mrs. Doolittle on the floor in her snake dance. Meanwhile, the genuine snake charmer discovers the loss of his pipe and finds that his snakes have grown gray-haired from the loss of their favorite melody. Hearing a familiar strain he falls under the influence and wriggles his way through the window into the house. Doolittle, master of all he surveys, continues to play the pipe while his subjects turn themselves inside out, winding up in a heap on the floor.—Moving Picture World synopsis