When the Tables Turned (1911)

After a strenuous season on the road, Ethel Kirby, a popular actress, was bored to death with New York, its lights, music and restaurants. So she decided to get away from it all and have a good rest. Being of a slightly superstitious and decidedly feminine mind, and having enough money to consult her own tastes, she decided to leave the location of her vacation to chance. She closed her eyes, stuck a hat pin in the map of the United States and discovered that her choice fell upon the little town of Lariet, in Texas. So to Lariet she went. Now it happened that Florence Halley had written a note to her aunt, Mrs. Burton, in Lariet, saying that she was coming to pay a visit and disparaging the cowboys in the neighborhood as being rather tame affairs. Mrs. Burton, dearly loving a joke, had told the boys and they were prepared to give Miss Halley a warm welcome. Miss Halley, the niece, and Miss Kirby, the actress, met in the dining-car of the train, and were soon good friends. At a wayside stop they got off to walk a bit, and Miss Halley was left. Miss Kirby arrived in Lariet alone and was held up and kidnapped by the boys, who thought that she was Mrs. Burton's niece. After frightening her badly, they locked her in a deserted house, took off their masks and prepared to make themselves known, but by this time the actress had discovered the trick played upon her and resolved to turn the tables by assuming to be mad. Her plan worked to perfection and she had the frightened cowboys doing all kinds of stunts while she held them up with a revolver. From this predicament they were rescued by the real niece, who arrived on a later train, and it was a very crest-fallen lot which was finally introduced to the little actress, whose dramatic powers they had learned to respect.

When the Tables Turned is a western movie directed by William F. Haddock.

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