The Alice Howell Collection #8 “His Wooden Leg-acy” (1920) – reviewed by George

When Alice Howell and Dick Smith joined the Emerald Film Company they moved to the studio’s headquarters in Chicago. They set up shop there under the supervision of Emerald’s founder and president, Frederick J. Ireland. Howell and Smith would make six films in the Windy City.
Opens with a man working with models in Greco-Roman costumes, while Alice is sweeping and cleaning in a nearby room. Then a man gets a letter about how “You all made the cut”, and are beneficiaries of someone recently deceased, and will soon receive by express a parcel containing the fortune left by your grandfather.
And now the two people rush to find Alice and show her the letter, and we can read more of it, and Alice is the sole beneficiary! Now Alice is the Young Heiress who is suddenly VERY popular, and fought over by young men. Then the fortune arrives! And it’a a wooden leg. What? Well, she is shunned and dropped by the former suck-ups, and she is out on her ear.
So now the rats get a telegram that says, “You will find you fortune in the wooden leg.”
Oh. dear! Now they have to find her and be nice until they can get their hands on that leg.
Alice, shunned and almost arrested, is mistaken by a real lady for her new ,maid. Alice starts her duties by trying to warm up the woman’s living quarters by lighting the furnace, where she some days ago hid the leg! And my summary ends there!
Except to say that SOMEHOW there’s a happy ending, and the film is SO Recommended.
Director unidentified, possibly Frederick J. Ireland or Dick Smith.