Mrs. Jarr and the Beauty Treatment (1915)
On a bright spring day, Mr. Jarr gets home early and is soon absorbed in the afternoon paper, while his wife reads the beauty page of the Woman's Magazine. She is greatly impressed with the warning against the first signs of a sagging chin as being a sure sign of the wane of beauty. By strange coincidence, Clara Mudridge-Smith has that day engaged a beauty doctor, and learning the august person will treat two victims for the price of one, she phones for Mrs. Jarr. That lady goes right over, after insisting Jarr take the children out for a walk. The two women pester Mr. Smith until he finally slams on his hat and goes out. Meeting Jarr and the children, the two men commiserate each other, and Smith buys a toy balloon for each of the Jarr youngsters. In the meantime, the dermatological expert has Mrs. Jarr and Mrs. Smith in chin straps and all kinds of face-harness, but the women cheerfully suffer tortures. Little Izzy Blavinsky becomes envious when he sees Willy and Emma Jarr with the balloons, but is flatly snubbed by them, whereupon the little rascal bursts Willy's balloon and cuts the cord holding Emma's. It flies into the air and becomes lodged among a maze of heavily-charged electric wires. Emma cries bitterly, and Jarr throws his steel-handled umbrella at the balloon to knock it down, causing a short circuit and a fine display of fireworks. This brings out the fire department, then a riot call for the police reserves. Jarr and Smith are both arrested, and come near being jailed, while their women-folks, in their queer headgear, create some sensation when they rush into court. Fortunately Gus's political influence gets them all out of trouble, but Mrs. Jarr;s beauty treatment is indefinitely postponed, while Izzy grins in satisfaction at the rumpus he has caused.
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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 |
