While blindfolded and playing pin the tail on the donkey with some lady friends, our hero is mistaken for an escaped initiate of a kooky fraternal order.
Happy Jack, the popular Hash Magnate of Harlem, is suddenly seized with high social aspirations and decides to carry out his ideas, to the great dismay of Lizzy Potts, the cook, who loves Jack.
Mrs. Jack Magee sues her flirty husband for a divorce. He enlists in the army to avoid paying alimony, but will he end up preferring that to matrimony?
Captain Jinks, the Cobbler was one of two Jinks comedies released by Vitagraph for Christmas 1916 and, according to the U.S. copyright filing, was loosely based on the true story of celebrated conman Friedrich Wilhelm Voigt, who passed as a Prussian officer and commandeered funds from the Köpenick...
Mrs. Jinks dreams that her milquetoast husband was more of a manly brute—at least until a life-saving blood transfusion changes him into her worst nightmare.