Efficiency Edgars Courtship (1917)

Efficiency wins success in business why not in love Edgar Bumpus a rising young man applies this reasoning to his courtship of Mary Pierce He first eliminates Wimple his closest competitor who plays a guitar by learning to play a saxophone which makes louder noise and by sending Mary flowers and candy each time Wimple calls on her The plan works OK until the saxophone disturbs Mr Pierces slumbers He and Edgar clash and the latter is forbidden to visit Mary any more Edgar employs a clipping bureau to send news items to Mr Pierce which tells of the troubles young girls get into when their fathers refuse to let them have beaux One eloped with a milkman another disappeared This has no effect upon Mr Pierce however except to make him hate Edgar more However the youths persistence finally wins Marys love Then Edgar plays his trump card He gets Mary to sign a legal agreement to forfeit 10000 to him unless she marries him