Plot

Max is a versatile individual. He acts as cashier in the box office, as ticket taker, porter, orchestra leader, etc. The "artists'' are arriving for the afternoon show. The strong man and his wife appear, and Max shows them to dressing room No. 13. Hubby leaves to test the floor of the stage, while Max, in the capacity of porter, brings in their trunk. The wife of the strong man is young and pretty. She is partly disrobed when Max arrives with the baggage, and she retires behind a curtain and begs Max to go before her jealous husband comes. Max is too late, and hearing the strong man coming, he gets into the trunk. The strong man sits down on top of it, and Max, nearly smothered, takes an augur and bit and starts boring for air. Unfortunately, he bores the husband instead, and Max is thrown out. After Max has started the orchestra he runs around and hauls up the curtain. The two comedians ask him for a prop cane, but he hands them a window weight instead. The comedian "beans" his partner with it, and the curtain has to be rung down prematurely. Then comes the strong man's act. He is a faker, and when he pretends to juggle the young man in the air by one hand, the boy is really supported by wires, which are manipulated by Max. A fly lights on Max's nose, which causes him to let go of the wires with disastrous consequences to the act. The Heavy from the Legit comes next, and Max has to work the Wind and Storm machine for him. The actor demands more and more wind, until Max starts the cyclone machine. Then everything is blown out of the theater, including the audience.

Moving Picture World, October 13, 1917