Tangled Tangoists

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Flora Finch and John Bunny attend a reception where the faddish tango prevails, and they are numbered among the wall flowers. Their discomfiture causes a determination on the part of both to take lessons and learn. Flora, through a newspaper advertisement, takes up the tango at a nearby school, and John, through a friend, at the club, does likewise. Unknown to each other, they both choose the same school and continue in ignorance of each other's presence until the last lesson of the course. Then she sees him and he sees her. They both get invitations to attend a reception at the same time and place where they had been obliged to look on while others danced, and they agree to show the guests a thing or two in the way of real tangoing. They make a big hit at the reception by their excellent dancing. On their way home, Herbert proposes marriage to Clara and suggests that they have a Tango Novelty Wedding. She blushingly accepts him and they are married a la tango. The Justice who marries them, Clara, Herbert, the clerk, and four witnesses all keep time to the tango tune, all through the ceremony. Even the chairs, tables, pictures, and other furniture, rock back and forth, to the irresistible spirit of the dance. Some time later, Clara is seen rocking the cradle in which a fine pair of twins with fine healthy voices are crying. Herbert tells her that rocking the cradle does no good. They accordingly take the twins, one in each arm, and she and Herbert do the tango. The babies show their appreciation by ceasing their crying and falling peacefully into Slumberland.