His Mother-in-Law's Visit (1913)
Mrs. Brandon is such a prim, particular person that you would never believe she had ever been so unconventional as to give up school teaching to get married. It is a delightful thing to see a young wife taking an interest in her home, but Mrs. Brandon rather overdoes it. She takes so much interest in her home that she forgets to take enough interest in her husband. When Brandon comes into the house wearing his wet rubbers, Mrs. Brandon scolds him, not because she is anxious about his health, but because she doesn't want her carpets to be spoiled. When he lights a cigar, it is her curtains rather than his throat that she is worried about. Brandon is a good-natured, easy-going chap, but his wife's exactions gradually wear on his disposition. He falls into the habit of going to the club in the evening with his friend Bill. Mrs. Brandon, unable to appreciate her husband's dissatisfaction with his home, is deeply aggrieved and sends for her mother. Owing to their sudden marriage, Brandon has never met his mother-in-law, and her prospective arrival seems to him to be the last straw. However, Mrs. Nowall is a charming woman with a great deal of experience and tact. Discovering immediately the source of the discord in the Brandon household, she gives her daughter good advice, with the result that the husband is surprised to find a fashionably dressed young woman awaiting his return from business, in place of the severe looking person he is accustomed to expect. Instead of being treated coldly, Bill is greeted with enthusiasm and asked to stay to dinner, and afterward Mrs. Brandon lights her husband's cigarettes with her own hands.
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| Filmmakers | Role |
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| C.J. Williams | Director |
| Mark Swan | Writer |
| Cast | Role |
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| William Wadsworth | |
| Elsie MacLeod | |
| Ida Williams | |
| Frank A. Lyons |
