Alfred Wellesley

The story starts in the Lido hotel where our "Pickles" remarks upon the fact that everyone in the register is called Smith. Hes trying to chat up Mimi so shell split up with her boyfriend as her boyfriends uncle has other plans for his nephew - alas what no one knows is that he and Mimi have already been married for a few months on the sly! (imdb)

A man beset by creditors invents a fictitious partner.

Tony Pumpford (George Gee) takes a job selling the Mop-It-Up vacuum cleaner. He tangles with a chorus girl (Betty Astell) and accidentally ends up in the show whilst demonstrating the cleaner. Chaos reigns, but all ends happily!