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Max's latest love, Barcord's daughter, craves a giant for her future spouse, and declares she will wed no other. Max essays to become one by assuming a pair of stilts. His efforts to walk in them result, however, in the ruining of his apartment and the despoiling of his immaculate attire. The advertisement of a Professor Rotte quickens his flagging hopes. This gentleman has a machine which, if the hand be placed on figure 1 increases the width, if on figure 2 the height. The professor gives a practical demonstration, and Max carries it home. Wishing to demonstrate to the incredulous Barcord his newly acquired ability to increase his inches, he places the machine in position, in his excitement putting the hand on figure 1. Immediately Max is reduced to a grotesquely shortened and much distended figure, and is ignominiously ejected by Barcord. Max is wrapped in gloomy reflections when his friend Service calls. Service comes to his aid by suggesting that, carried on his shoulders and hidden by a long cloak, Max will present the appearance of a giant. Barcord welcomes him warmly this time, but Service, who has an appointment with his fiancée, Betty, hurries Max into the hall, where she is waiting. Service explains matters to the astonished Betty, and Barcord learns how he has been deceived. The two conspirators make a somewhat undignified exit, and Max then seeks Professor Wires, who claims to lengthen people by electricity. Max at last realises his ambition, and when quite 7 ft. in height, he hurries to Barcord's house to claim Betty and the parental blessing. (The Bioscope, Oct. 17^th 1912)