Fruit and Flowers (1910)
It may be the height of presumption on the part of two office clerks to be in love with their employer's daughter, but they are, so that settles it. What is more, the boss' daughter invites the rivals to a musicale, and don't they make preparations! One buys a box of beautiful flowers and the other gets a basket of fine fruit. But there's many a slip, as 'tis said, for a fellow clerk sees a chance to spoil things and the result is terrible. When they arrive at the young lady's house, one of them reaches for his gift, and is just tickled to death at the prospect of making a bit with those flowers. He is talking to her while he fumbles about in the box, finally drawing out - roses? No, dear reader, turnips! True, it cannot be denied that a rose does not lose its sweetness if called a turnip, but a real turnip does not smell sweetly if called a rose; and this is a real turnip. His garland of roses had become a vegetable depository. The girl stands aghast, but before the baffled clerk can recover, his smiling rival is removing the covering from his basket. It is his supreme moment and he chuckles gleefully as he uncovers - fruit? No, cabbages and turnips. The girl flees, insulted, and the two, facing each other for a moment, suddenly begin to bombard each other with the vegetables. Some of the stuff goes through the portieres and into the conservatory, bouncing onto the guests and a French pianist, who is passionately executing a rhapsody. The party breaks up and the two young men beat an ignoble retreat. Needless to add, they are both fired next morning, and the clerk who injected the bitterness into their lives (via the vegetables) bids them a tearful farewell. We next see the pair out on a park bench, from where one of them suddenly catches sight of their amorita. He sneaks away, but the other soon follows and overtakes them in a summer garden, where he wins her attention from his rival. The other chap is seated at the same table, but is ignored. So he settles down to read a paper and all at once he bursts forth in a fit of laughter. The other man thinks he's crazy, but ignores him until a third young fellow comes on the scene and marches off with the girl. Then the now prostrate clerk stops laughing long enough to show him what he read in the paper; an announcement of her engagement, and to the very fellow she has just walked away with. Wouldn't it drive you to drink?
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GenresComedy
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| Filmmakers | Role |
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| Carl Laemmle | Producer |
| Cast | Role |
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| Charles Arling | |
| King Baggot | |
| Owen Moore |
