obscure comedy team 'Oscar and Conrad'

[David Denton]

Sometime in 1916, the brains at Thanhouser's comedy branch Falstaff, paired Claude Cooper and Frank E. McNish in a series (of 8?) as Oscar and Conrad; in Dutch comic guise, gentler than Heinie and Louie, at least in this film THE GUIDERS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEogfLZ8omg

Starring Claude Cooper, Frank E. McNish and Louise Emerald Bates. You can spot Riley Chamberlin (small bald man) in the Elks Club sequence and I believe Billy Sullivan is the young man they tussle with at the end