WHEN DOCTORS DISAGREE

Original British 11 7/8 inch x 8 inch Trade Advertisement from Kinematograph Weekly for the 1919 Victor Schertzinger Comedy WHEN DOCTORS DISAGREE, based on a story by Anna F. Briand and starring Mabel Normand, Walter Hiers, George Nichols, Fritzi Ridgeway and Alec B. Francis.

During the May Day celebration at Ferryville, Millie Martin, whose stingy father will not buy her proper clothes, watches as Violet Henry, the daughter of the town’s richest man, is pushed into a stagnant pool by the village bolshevik. The story amuses Millie’s father, who gives her a dollar, with which she buys beauty cream in preparation for her first railway journey. On the train, Millie meets John Turner, a carpet layer disguised as a doctor. Earlier, John fought a man caught cheating at poker. He took his uncle’s railway ticket and doctor’s bag when he thought the cheater was killed. After Millie feigns a toothache to get John’s attention, her father, to avoid a doctor’s bill, gives her chewing tobacco as a remedy. When she swallows it, and John orders an operation, the train stops at a nearby sanitarium. After Millie escapes, and John finds her in a room with a baby, they both explain. John is mistaken for a burglar, and after his uncle arrives to straighten matters out, John and Millie are free to pursue romance.

The Advertisement is in very good condition with a half inch tear at the right edge.