Sherlock Jr.

The sheik:
We are lost! He is sending for the world's greatest detective - Sherlock Jr.!

Title card:
There is an old proverb which says: Don't try to do two things at once and expect to do justice to both. This is the story of a boy who tried it. While employed as a moving picture operator in a small town theater he was also studying to be a detective.

Theatre Manager:
Say Mr. Detective, before you clean up any mysteries, clean up this theater!

Girl Who Loses Dollar Outside Cinema:
I lost a dollar. Did you find it?

Projectionist:
[points to the trash pile] In there?

Girl Who Loses Dollar Outside Cinema:
Yes, did you?

Projectionist:
[nods reluctantly, pulls it out] Describe it.

Girl Who Loses Dollar Outside Cinema:
[gestures] This long. [Buster checks it] This wide. [he checks again, she makes a bird with her hands, he checks and hands it over]

The sheik:
[to Sherlock Jr. about a man locked in a tight cage] That's a detective. When he's dead I'll put you in there.

Projectionist:
[as Sherlock Jr., riding on the handlebars of a motorcycle, unaware the driver fell off] Be careful or one of us will get hurt.