Released May 15, 1911
Discharging
the Cook
Dear, Kind
Hubby
DISCHARGING THE COOK.
Husband, wife and two chil-
juil, for he finds fault with
assigned the wife, who fails
l the other hand, gives an
Then the brave head of the
the v
SCHARGING the cook is a slap stick comedy.
dren complete the household. All is not tra:
dinner and orders the cook fired. This duty i
to convince the cook that she is discharged; c
athletic demonstration' of her sprinting ability.
family sallies forth only to meet his Waterloo,
le kids do their part. The bull pup chases her through
:1 to blow up the cook stove, when at last an armistic
inged and the rambuncious cook departs in peace.
DEAR, KIND HUBBY.
a the contrary, this is one husband that appreciates a book and realizes that the
■y department is no place for him. The wife being ill, he demonstrates his abil-
assume charge of the kitchen, and this soon resolves itself into a state of tur-
distraction and desperation, for his knowledge as a chef is limited to being able
tinguish a dill pickle from a canvas back duck. When the smoke clears on the
of the first siege, the carnage is appalling, and the only thing remaining unci is the fly paper. In desperation he calls upon the Employment Agency for
•cement. A cook is sent and joy again reigns supreme.
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MAY 18, 1911
A RED LETTER DAY FOR SELIG
THE STILL ALARM
ORIGINAL PRODUCTION BY JOSEPH ARTHUR
re Rights Controlled by the Selig; Polyscope Company
OAST
LEONARD
HERBERT RAWLINSON
FRANK GARCIA
FRED HUNTLFY
FRANK RICHARDSON
GEO GOLDE
JACK MANLEY ' - -
JOHN BIRD, Alms Gorman -
WILLIAM MANLEY
DOC WILBER - - - -
FRANKLYN FORDHAM -
JENKINS
JO JONES -------- FRANK CLARK
A. D. MESSENGER ----- WILLIS WARREN
ELINOR FORDHAM - - - - EUGENIA
CAD WILBER ------ BETTE HARTE
MRS. MANLEY - - - - - - ANNA DODGE
i gone by;
in all his d'ealin
ind aften
The
e befoi
OHN BIRD and Franklyn Fordham were busm<
the firm being on the verge of bankruptcy,
its lost prestige. Fordham, a man of honor
a fond and devo father made the innocei:
through the unscrupulous plotting of Bird,
ston Mystery that had baffled the police f.
securing the valuables left deposited in th'; nrm's se
Fordham became prosperous, his former partner beca
lower as the years rolled on.
Elinor, the cherished daughter ui Fordham, was blooming i
had' found her love reciprocated when Jack fdanley, the blacksr
her life. He was made a trusted employe of her father's and bees
honor and integrity.
Then dark days came upon them. Bird returned and threatened his former partner and asked as a price for ins silence the hand of Elinor. To shield the family name
and save them from disgrace, he is forced to discharge Jack from his employ and renounce him as his future son-in-law. After a few months of disappointment and search
for work, Tack i- again back with his old iire department associates.
In order that he mav accomplish his end-. Bird, through the pretense of being a
newspaper man (under the assumed name of Gorman), gains admittance to the engine
house and cuts the wdres. At the same time a mysteriou-, fire breaks out m the Fordham mansion, but Wind Frovidence -ends a messenger telling Jack of the threatened
danger. Pallid with emotion and with a determination as rigid as stone,
esuit was the great John-
Hird leaves the city after
i Johnston's death. While
legade and fell lower and
aanhood and
; for his
4_H_44 and rushes madly to the rescue, for there was ;
for duty that spurred him into the burning home in
father. ' Thus again Bird's scheme had failed.
The day has arrived when his marriage is to be p<
through a ruse of illness, induces Elinor to visit him, kn
thus give him a chance to meet face to face with the r
This proved the undoing of the treacherous Bird and 1
officers and results in the reuniting of' the devoted lo
, higher
t thai
Elinor and her
a last hope Jack,
otild follow, and
rumed his future.
the hands of the
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