When two bumbling barbers act as agents for a talented but unknown singer, they stage a phony murder in order to get him a plum role.

A silent Western star has trouble adjusting to the coming of sound.

Brief vignettes about Lincoln's early life include his birth, early jobs, (unsubstantiated) affair with Ann Rutledge, courtship of Mary Todd, and the Lincoln-Douglas debates; his presidency and the Civil War are followed in somewhat more detail, though without actual battle scenes; film concludes with the assassination. Written by Rod Crawford puffinus@u.washington.edu