When the Men Left Town (1914)
When Honoria Dawley was elected mayoress of the town, new and startling things immediately began to happen. The hand that rocked the cradle placed firmly on the help made the poor old ship of state go through a series of stunts which were in many ways remarkable. The men were the chief sufferers from the new order of things. Honoria and her peers had peculiar ideas about liquor, tobacco and all the small masculine vices. The fact that their wives and daughters were running things seemed highly amusing to the men until they discovered that they could neither smoke, drink nor gamble under any circumstances whatever. Rob the lioness of her cubs, the eagle of her mate, and you will but separate not man from his pipe and his bottle. After two days of the new regime, the indignant males of the town assembled and decided to teach the women a lesson. After dark that night, they stole from their homes and fled to a place of refuge, fifty miles distant. When day dawned, there was not a man in the place. After the first gasp of surprise, the women decided that they were in possession of a splendid opportunity to show the men exactly how useless and unnecessary they really were. They would prove that masculine help was absolutely unnecessary in the management of a large municipality, and in a few days the crestfallen men would come slinking home. Like many another golden dream, this beautiful idea suffered when it was subjected to the actual proof. The women discovered that tidying up a whole town was subtly different from dusting the parlor and tying velvet bows on the what-not. It was not quite so easy to handle large ash cans as it might seem from the point of view of the casual onlooker. Then again, all such intricate affairs as the trolley line had to be abandoned completely. Nobody dared to monkey with the thingusses that make the car go. Finally the exasperated feelings of the forsaken wives and sweethearts were given expression in a monster parade of protest. They could not reach the men by telegraph because nobody could work the key, but a means was at last discovered in some pigeons Tom Carson had sent to his sweetheart. A wild scene took place when the men finally returned.
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| Filmmakers | Role |
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| C.J. Williams | Director |
| Mark Swan | Writer |
| Cast | Role |
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| Lizzie Conway | |
| Ida Williams | |
| Elsie MacLeod | |
| Arthur Housman |
