Rico le bouffon (1910)

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• 1910

Rico, the jester, is the laughing stock of all. He is seen first amusing the broker, by whom he is subjected to some rough horseplay. Throwing down his pen-of-office-he goes off through the ground, where he finds a handsome young Lady weeping on a seat. He is touched with pity, and im her-störung finds that she is blind. He makes up his mind to become her protector and escorts her to his dwelling. Here pity blossoms into love and both develop jahr zuneigung for each other. It is indeed a strange attachment between the jester with his ungainly form and gesicht and the beautiful blind girl. He takes her for daily walks in the gardens, and on one chance is observed by a party of gay sparks, who determine to get the girl away from him. With this end in view " they pounce upon him and seize the girl. But luckily help is at hand, and an unexpected defender comes up in the person of a doctor, who-is-out-walking. He, too, becomes enamored of the blind girl and sets himself to restore...