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A film based on the Ginger Meggs characters.

According to the NFSA, the surviving fragment 'includes a billy-cart race, an ice-cream fight in the street, setting fire to newspapers, a romantic interlude and a fairy in the park.'

Contemporary critics criticised the 'American' flavour of the film:

'it is plainly modeled on the pictures that come pouring into our midst from America. The little sketches beneath the text of the captions exactly resemble those that adorn the Christie comedies. There are pie-slinging episodes, bathing beauties, crooks who raid jewellers shops, and scenes in which under-garments play a prominent part. The dissolving view, where a man knocked unconscious, sees a vision of dancing fairies–in this case one dancing fairy–has had quite a vogue in America since Charlie Chaplin used it as one of the features of "Sunnyside." It may be an accident that one of Mr. Ward's crooks bears the same name ("Spike" Malone), as a shady character in Richard Dix's picture "Manhattan," released here a few weeks ago. These efforts to achieve variety by patching together the most diversely coloured materials, from gaudy farce to sombre melodrama, have succeeded only in leaving the story rambling and incoherent. It is, in fact, but a series of incidents. There has been no attempt in the settings, to take advantage of the city's natural beauties.'

Source: 'The Terrible Twins', The Sydney Morning Herald, 13 May 1925, p.10.