Rudolph Schlitz, a cobbler, finds a lottery ticket in a shoe he is repairing and, determined to make some money from it, he sells an interest in the ticket to his friend, Adolph Busch. Then, fed up with the way temperance leader Caroline Pickett rails against the evils of alcohol, Bobbie Bennett spikes the cider at Caroline's picnic. All of the villagers in attendance get drunk, including Rudolph and Adolph, who then dream that they have arrived in Washington to claim their lottery winnings. Besides being transported to the nation's capital, however, they also have been transported through time back to the Civil War and barely escape from the fighting alive. Rudolph and Adolph then wake up from their shared nightmare, and remembering the link between gambling and Gettysburg, they swear off lotteries and other games of chance forever. -AFI
Kolb and Dill have made good so emphatically in pictures that it is probable they have quit the speaking stage for ail time. If their best known stage success, “A Peck o’ Pickles,” which is being shown at Clune’s Broadway this week to howling audiences, is a fair measure of their future screen production they will probably never be lured back to the footlights. “This comedy had a remarkable career on the stage. For more than five years the comedians found the piece by Frank Stammers a never failing box office success. But even at that, the screen version shows that It “never had a chance." There is so much more in the filmed version, owing to the greater latitude enjoyed by the camera in the presentation of realism and the extent of ground that can be covered, that the stage version of “A Peck of Pickles” is made to look like a mere skeleton. It Is understood that all of the stage successes of Kolb and Dill are to have their turn on the screen greatly amplified as the pictures can do them. The comedians are said to be under a long-time contract with the American company at Santa Barbara.
- Kolb and Dill Will Make More Films, Los Angeles Herald, 5 December 1916