The Jarrs Visit Arcadia (1915)
Jarr is bringing home a bunch of rosebushes, given to him by Jenkins from his office, to his wife for her new windowbox, but his troubles start when he comes near anyone. Carelessly wrapped and with the thorny stalks protruding a foot, the bushes rake all who get in his path, and after a particularly exasperating ride on the subway, he arrives home angry and disgusted--and his wife tells him that rosebushes are no earthly use for a windowbox. He heaves them out the window and they land on Slavinky the glazier's bald head; Slavinsky retaliates by seizing Willie Jarr's air-gun and hitting Jarr in the eye. Jarr then pushes windowbox, dirt and all, onto Slavinsky. The next day the Jarrs leave for their promised visits to Arcadia, the Jenkins' suburban home. The journey from the railroad depot in the ancient hack is a forerunner, and they find the "suburban home" a dilapidated cottage containing horrible chromo portraits and presided over by sour-visaged Mrs. Jenkins. Their hostess has evidently lost much of her early training in table manners, and when she uses a steel knife to cut lemons into a glass of water, then sips the concoction, her guests nearly have a fit. Then the chickens get into the garden and the Jarrs are pressed into service. Jarr vows that chasing a greased pig is mild and tame sport in comparison. That evening the Jarrs are taken to dine at a suburban cabaret, which turns out to be an "owl" lunch-wagon, and the "entertainment" a rube performer on the harmonica. The men are all deputized to raid a "gambling hall" which the constable has obtained wind of, and the posse finds some of the town's most respectable citizens recklessly betting a nickel, or even a dime, on the pernicious game of checkers then in progress. More exasperating contretemps follow before the weary Jarrs finally get back to their comfortable Harlem flat.
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GenresComedy
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| Filmmakers | Role |
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| Harry Davenport | Director |
| Roy L. McCardell | Writer |
| Cast | Role |
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| Harry Davenport | |
| Rose Tapley | |
| Audrey Berry | |
| Paul Kelly |
