His Nibs (film)

His Nibs (1921) is a comedy film starring Chic Sale and Colleen Moore.

Plot

The Slippery Elm Picture Palace screens the film He Fooled ’Em All as various rural characters watch. The owner, operator, and projectionist is "His Nibs". He tells the audience that he has cut the titles from the film but will explain the action. "The Boy" (Sale) leaves a small town in the film-within-the-film to get rich in the city, but he is swindled out of his money, his clothes are stolen, and he is forced to become a dishwasher to pay his rent.

"The Girl" (Moore) and The Girl's father (Dowling) are talked into visiting the city by a swindler, but luckily they end up at the hotel where "The Boy" is working, and he disrupts the plot. All this is explained by "His Nibs" as the film shows, "His Nibs" offering his own commentary on the action as the story advances. Having eliminated the customary happy ending, "His Nibs" tells the audience that The Boy and The Girl got married just the same.

Cast

Cribbage

Cribbage, or crib, is a card game traditionally for two players, but commonly played with three, four or more, that involves playing and grouping cards in combinations which gain points. Cribbage has several distinctive features: the cribbage board used for score-keeping, the eponymous crib or box (a separate hand counting for the dealer), two distinct scoring stages (the play and the show) and a unique scoring system including points for groups of cards that total fifteen.

History

According to John Aubrey, cribbage was created by the English poet Sir John Suckling in the early 17th century, as a derivation of the game "noddy." While noddy has disappeared, crib has survived, virtually unchanged, as one of the most popular games in the English-speaking world. The objective of the game is to be the first player to score a target number of points, typically 61 or 121. Points are scored for card combinations that add up to fifteen, and for pairs, triples, quadruples, runs and flushes.