The Moving Picture Weekly (1916-1917)

-THE MOVING PICTURE WEEKLY -29 L-Ko "Where is My Che-ild 55 — KO Two-Reeler. Made by Noel Smith, under supervision of J. G. Blystpne and featuring Dan Russell, with a new member of the Komedy Kompany. A remarkably intelligent dog. CAST. Mr. Weazelbiffer Dan Russell Mrs. Weazelbiffer Mrs. Moore Mrs. Gilsprev Gladys Varden T I HERE are all varieties of henpecked husbands in screen comedies, but Dan Russell has found a new kind in the latest L-Ko travesty, "Where is My Che-ild?" Noel Smith was responsible for most of the execution of this picture, though Blystone threw a professional eye over the proceedings as usual. Gladys Varden aids and abets Dan, and the dog is really a featured player of the cast. Mr, Weazelbiffer is henpecked at home, but at his office he is boss. He has a neat arrangement fot getting rid of ihconvenient people. They sit in a certain chair and are shot through the wall and into a pool of water. This is very effective against book agents and creditors. The Gilsprey household is just the opposite. Hubby does all the work and wife flirts. She works once in a while and he minds the baby. Mr. Weazelbiffer has a disagreement with his bookkeeper, when Gladys comes to the office looking for a job. By mistake sh% is shot into the pool. Dan rescues her and stands her over the register to dry. Then he shoots the bookkeeper in after her. The bookkeeper sends him word that she will be revenged on him. Dan is contemptuous. An elderly office boy applies for work, which is given to him. Dan now needs a new bookkeeper, * and Gladys phones tp the agency. The wires get crossed and she gets her husband on the wire instead. He ties the baby cradle to the pendulum so that it will rock while he is gone and goes to the job. He is engaged, but Dan is mad when he sees Gladys flirting, as he thinks, with the new man. Dan's wife arrives, and the new office boy says she is a book agent. So she is shot into the pool. There is a general melee after this, and Dan's wife insists upon Gladys being discharged. Dan obeys, but he writes a note on the back of the check h^ gives Gladys asking her to come to his house that night. Dan then sends a faked message to his wife, telling her that her sister's estate is being settled and that she is wanted by the laAvyer. He gives the letter to the boy, who reads it, but takes it to Mrs. Weazelbiffer. She falls for it, and Gladys and Dan are soon enjoying a little supper at his house. The boy, however, tells Mrs. W. of the fake, and she returns hotfoot. Dan has just time to hide Gladys. A man arrives with a vacuum cleaner to clean the apartment. It draws all the furniture into a heap. In the meantime, Gladys' husband has returned and found Dan's note to his wife. He takes the baby and goes to Dan's. He says "You took my wife, now take my child." Dan hides the baby in all sorts of places, finally in the stove. The dog finds the baby and takes it out to his kennel, in his mouth. Hubby has a change of heart, and returns for his child. Dan can't find it. The cleaner sees through the window that the baby is with the dog. He goes out secretly. Gladys is hiding disguised as a chair. But Mrs. W. finds her. The cleaner tells about the baby and the dog, who drags the kennel after him by its chain. After a long chase they find the kennel empty after all. They return, with a policeman, who finds the baby hanging on the hatrack in the hall. He puts it, covered, on the bed. The cleaner hides it again. They can't find it and are crazy. At last the dog finds the baby for them. Then they all turn on the cleaner. "Who are you?" they ask. He puts on the bookkeeper's whiskers, and declares himself avenged.