Keeping Husbands Home (1913)
Fred King calls at the office of his friend, John Carpenter, to ask him to a cabaret dinner that evening. John sends a telegram to his wife, saying that the manager is in town and that he has to take him out to dinner. Kate Carpenter, John's wife, is terribly disappointed when she receives her husband's message. When, after dinner, her friend Mrs. King comes around and she learns that she also has had a similar telegram to her own, Kate guesses that the two men are off together on a spree. Next morning the two women meet and go to town together. First they call upon a carpenter and arrange for him to build a small stage in Mrs. Carpenter's dining-room. From there they go to the manager of a cabaret and arrange with him for the attendance of performers and musicians the next day. With the securing of a bartender and the necessary supplies for a bar, their activities for the morning are concluded. Mrs. King tells her husband that he is invited to go with her to Mrs. Carpenter's for dinner the next day, while Kate also informs her husband of the dinner engagement she has made with the Kings. John is rather bored by the idea of dinner at home, but cannot see his way out of it. When the two men arrive at the house in the evening their wives take them to the bar and tell them to order whatever they please. They show considerable reluctance at leaving the bar for the dinner table when their wives call them. As soon as dinner is started Mrs. Carpenter makes a sign to the maid and the curtains are drawn aside from the stage at the end of the room. The two men gasp with astonishment as the performers dance on, but getting the spirit of the thing they toast their wives and end the dinner by dancing a hilarious turkey-trot around the table with them. The two wives are thoroughly delighted with the success of their experiment and are filled with visions of husbands always at home to dinner in the future.
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GenresComedy
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| Filmmakers | Role |
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| Bert Angeles | Director |
| Cast | Role |
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| Lillian Walker | |
| Robert Gaillard | |
| Hughie Mack | |
| Florence Radinoff |
