- Prince Oscar of Ostrau, about to marry a princess from a neighboring country to please his father, King Gustave, is saved from that fate when an uprising causes the princess to leave. After Prince Oscar indulges in a dalliance with a burlesque actress in London, England, King Gustave arranges for his American friend, Peter Hart, to take Oscar to the U.S., where Oscar marries Peter's sister, Isabelle. The wedding news, coming as the king returns to the throne, causes him to send his chief of police, Baron Hagar, to have the marriage annulled and return the prince home. After Peter, Isabelle, and Oscar escape from the baron, they discover an unemployed clerk, Barry Lawrence, who looks just like Oscar. They give him $1,000 to lead the baron off their trail, but when Barry's sweetheart, Shirley Rives, thought to be Isabelle, is endangered, Oscar reveals himself to the baron and refuses to return. He then renounces his claim to the throne and becomes an American citizen.
- Oscar, son of Gustave, King of Ostrau, is saved from a forced marriage by a revolution in the kingdom, and leaves for the United States, accompanied by Peter Hart, his American friend and advisor. In New York he meets Barry Lawrence, a young bookkeeper, out of a job through the rascally work of a fellow clerk and Prince Oscar's perfect double. The Prince has met and quietly married Isabelle, an American girl, and wishing to renounce his claim to the throne and become an American citizen, he changes identities with Barry. King Gustave learns of his son's marriage and, horrified, sends Baron Hagar, Chief of Police, to bring back Oscar, by force it necessary. Barry accordingly poses as the Prince in disguise and takes up his abode in the Hotel St. Albans, and Hart, let into the secret, sets Baron Hagar's henchmen on Barry's trail. After some startling adventures, Barry, bewildered by it all, is kidnapped; likewise, Shirley, niece of Mrs. Wilmerding, a wealthy woman, the detectives working on the case imagining she must be "the Prince's" wife. Barry escapes and accuses Hart of causing all his troubles, then sets out to rescue Shirley. Hagar arrives to interview Shirley, whom he supposes to be Isabelle, wife of Oscar, and is stunned to confront a stranger. Complications and surprises accumulate rapidly when Barry arrives, and immediately after him Oscar. Everyone is astounded as the two men, dressed and looking exactly alike, meet face to face. Then explanations are made which result in the chagrin of the baffled Hagar, the uniting of Barry and Shirley, while Oscar, Prince no longer, proudly announces that his American citizenship papers and his American bride more than recompense him for the kingdom he has lost.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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