In Arcadia (1916)
The Youngloves have a cozy little apartment and a jewel of a cook, Bridget, and are very happy until the landlord raises the rent. Then they are beguiled by a poetically-worded ad into taking a lease on a "beautiful bungalow," which the slick Agent shows them on paper, in Arcadia, "the modern Paradise." A long, wearisome train ride lands them in a wild, lonely section of the country; then a 2-hour wait for the next branch train and an apparently endless walk across muddy fields later, the Youngloves and Bridget arrive at "Eros Villa, " their new home. Some villa: it's a tumbledown old shack with a scrubby hedge running around it. As the moving van has broken down, their furniture does not arrive, so they spend a veritable nightmare of a night trying to sleep on hastily-made-up hard beds and being scared nearly to death by huge rats scampering through the rooms. In the morning, Younglove rushes to the Agent's office, who suavely agrees to tear up the lease for two months' rent, and Younglove, his wife, and Bridget, all sadder and wiser, humbly return to a Harlem flat in peaceful thankfulness.
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GenresComedy
Short
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| Filmmakers | Role |
|---|---|
| Cortland Van Deusen | Director |
| W.A. Tremayne | Writer |
| Cast | Role |
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| William Dangman | |
| Ethel Corcoran | |
| Kate Price | |
| Edward Elkas |
