Wanted: A Husband

The young husband is called from the city on business for a month. While he is gone Uncle telegraphs his niece, the wife, that he is visiting a certain hotel on the beach, where he wishes her to bring her husband, and if she meets with the uncle's approval he will leave them his entire fortune. If not he will cut her off. The wife is desperate, as she is anxious to secure the money. She decides to consult with her lawyer. With offices adjoining the wife's lawyer is a young lawyer who has never had any clients. He has a sweetheart, but her mother refuses to consent to their marriage because he never has earned any money. When the wife finds that her attorney is out of town for a couple of weeks she talks to the young lawyer, explains the situation to him and finally secures his promise to act as the husband. He accordingly tells his sweetheart that he must go out of town for a few days, which does not meet with her approval, especially after some lady friend tells her that she has seen her sweetheart with another woman. The wife and lawyer arrive at the hotel, meet the uncle, who is favorably impressed, and everything is working out nicely, although the lawyer is quite nervous. The girl, very much broken up over the lawyer's departure, decides to go to the beach with her mother and put up at the same hotel where the uncle and the others are stopping. The girl sees her sweetheart with the other woman, hears the uncle speak of him as the woman's husband and is nearly heart-broken. Meanwhile the husband has been ordered home and finds the telegram. He immediately sets off for the beach. There is a grand scramble when all parties get together, the parties all get together, explanations follow and everything ends happily. —Moving Picture World synopsis