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Long before achieving screen fame as two-reel comedian Charley Chase, Charles Parrott, was a prolific director at such studios as Keystone, Fox, and King Bee. It was at Keystone that Parrott/Chase helmed the "all star" comedy Hearts and Sparks. Seventeen-year-old Gloria Swanson plays the sweetheart of handsome young inventor Bobby Vernon. Enter villain Hank Mann, who holds the mortgage on Swanson's family home and demands that she marry him. To save Gloria from this horrendous fate, Bobby enters an auto race, hoping to prove the efficiency of his remote-control automobile. It all winds up in a standard-issue Keystone "race to the rescue," as Bobby tries to prevent Gloria from saying "I do" to snake-in-the-grass Mann.