The Thrifty Janitor (1913)
The whole trouble started when Mr. and Mrs. Blythe had a slight difference of opinion with regard to their vacation. Mr. Blythe wanted to go to the mountains while Mrs. Blythe insisted that the seashore was infinitely more attractive in every way. Mr. Blythe said that he would spend his vacation at his club in town, and Mrs. Blythe told him he was a brute, and went home to her mother. Now the janitor did not know that they had quarreled; he thought they had gone on their two months' vacation. And so he decided to rent the Blythe's apartment. A young bride and groom coming to the city on their honeymoon had been highly shocked by the tremendous charges of the hotel to which they had gone at first. In their search of a more reasonable habitation, they chanced to see the sign which the janitor had placed in front of the apartment house. The young couple inspected the apartment, and, finding the price distinctly reasonable, decided to take it. Meanwhile, the Blythes had been passing through periods of repentance. Mr. Blythe met an old friend at the club. The old friend told him he was making a fool of himself and Mr. Blythe was unwillingly forced to agree with him. Mrs. Blythe's mother and father effected the same result on Mrs. Blythe by their sensible, unbiased speech. The upshot of the whole affair was that the Blythes decided to go home and forgive each other. Mrs. Blythe arrived first, and found a woman's hat on the table in the hall. Mr. Blythe arriving a moment later was confronted by a maddened spouse. In the midst of her tirade, Mr. Blythe made the startling discovery that there was another man in the house. He tried to get him. The groom barricaded the door, and shouted loudly from the window that criminal lunatics had broken into his dwelling-place. After the police had succeeded in calming the disturbance, the janitor was allowed to explain his part in the affair.
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GenresComedy
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| Filmmakers | Role |
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| Milton Nobles | Writer |
| Cast | Role |
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| Dan Mason | |
| Arthur Housman | |
| Elsie MacLeod |
