A Midnight Supper (1909)
The game is won! The traditional honor of the college is preserved. As a fitting climax to the day's victory, the fair co-eds decide to hold a midnight supper. Invitations are distributed with great secrecy. An invitation dropped by a careless student, is found by the janitor. The janitor, his arms filled with stovepipes and bottles, meets the enthusiastic students as they troop through the corridor. On mischief bent, they jolly him until his good nature rebels. In an effort to retaliate he slips, and crashes down in a medley of stovepipes and bottles. The uproar sends the merrymakers scurrying to their rooms. Aroused, the Preceptress finds the janitor floundering on the floor. Thinking him drunk she calls a policeman. Brought to his feet by the officer, in a dazed condition his explanations are unintelligible. Disgrace stares him in the face. "Providential thought." The invitation saves him. The "Midnight Supper" is no longer a secret. Reading the invitation the amazed Preceptress plots a surprise. She orders the janitor to stand guard and call her on the stroke of twelve. Miss Sprite, of the supper committee, overhears the plot. To outwit him she watches her chance and turns back the hands of the corridor clock. The grim sentinel on guard wearies and goes to sleep. Once he wakens, but the clock only tells him of more leaden hours. Smuggling the good things in the window the girls enjoy themselves as only care-free maidens can. The supper is over; one more mad prank to close the day's sport. Stealing softly out, they tie the sleeping janitor's legs to the fire gong. They wake him. His struggles ring the alarm. Prepared, the students rush in and deluge him with water before the arrival of the city's guardians.
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GenresComedy
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| Filmmakers | Role |
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| Edwin S. Porter | Director |
