The Flirt (1913)
Having realized the weakness of his wife for flirtation, Robert Gordon determines to teach her a severe lesson. Robert brings home a friend, Carl Bressler, and introduces him to his wife. Dolores, of course, attempts to flirt with him and he is only too glad to reciprocate. The next day Robert brings home a beautiful pearl necklace to her and tells her to avoid Bressler. A day or two later he goes away, telling his wife that he is going on business and will be gone for a week and advises her to put her necklace in the safe. In reality he stays around where he can watch Dolores and see what she will do. The day after he has gone, Dolores, in spite of what Robert has said to her, phones to Carl to come over to amuse her. He comes at once, and, seeing a beautiful necklace on her neck, he compliments her on it, Dolores tells him that she has a much finer one in the safe and offers to get it out to show him. Gordon has been hidden behind the curtains all the while and hears all that goes on. Giving her time to open the safe, he goes downstairs and a moment later returns, making a noise so that his wife will hear him coming. She flees from the room, hoping that her husband will think that Carl has just called and that she has not yet seen him. Gordon enters the room, and, seeing the open safe, he accuses Carl of robbery, and telephones for the police. Then he calls his wife and tells her that Carl is a thief. Dolores is afraid to tell the truth and does not say anything that will prove Carl not guilty, although her husband gives her every opportunity to do so. It is not until the police actually arrive and prepare to take Bressler away that she takes any action to save him. Gordon dismisses the police and tells Bressler never to call at his house again. Dolores sees her fault and resolves never to flirt again.
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| Filmmakers | Role |
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| William Humphrey | Director |
| Marguerite Bertsch | Writer |
| Cast | Role |
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| William Humphrey | |
| Dorothy Kelly | |
| Earle Williams | |
| Evart Overton |
