Revised list of high-class original motion picture films (1908)

COMEDY. Mr. Blossom, and together they go off, both filled with exuberant spirits. P. D. 509X. THE COLONEL'S KID. Price, $30.00. Approximate Length, 250 feet. A highly amusing comedy is rendered under the title of "The Colonel's Kid." The series opens with a parlor scene, with the colonel's wife at the piano, when the nurse enters with the infant son. Directly the Colonel makes his appearance and after a little amusement with the promising young warrior the nurse goes out with her charge for a stroll. Following her, we see that she joins a number of other girls similarly engaged and all are having a good time. An officer approaches and, with the exception of the nurse with the Colonel's kid, all manage to move along. The officer takes a seat beside the nurse, and is soon lost in admiration of, ostensibly, the child, but in reality the nurse. A soldier now joins the party, and the nurse obligingly permits the officer to hold the infant while she goes off for a stroll with the newcomer. During the absence the Colonel makes his appearance, and we see the officer making vain efforts to quiet the little one, and in his excitement he is turning the little one over and over. The Colonel is angry and takes charge of his child, and at that moment the nurse and soldier appear. The nurse tries to explain, but is ordered away, as also the officer, and the Colonel himself remains in charge of his neglected little son and soon has the little fellow beaming with smiles. P. D. 534X. THIRTEEN AT TABLE. Price, $56.04. Approximate Length, 467 feet. The scene is the drawing-room of a fashionable home. Guests are distributed over the room, diversely occupied, when a telegram is received that the host cannot be present until a late hour. As all are ready for the dinner the guests proceed to the dining room, where they gather about the well decked table. One of the party counts the members and imparts the information that there are just thirteen present. All further progress is stopped and one of their number sent out to seek another person. He goes out and encounters a man seated on a box and seeking charity. This one he invites into the place, gives him another coat to wear, and he is ushered to a seat at the head of the table, where he is seated next to the hostess. As the courses are served he makes himself conspicuous by his lack of table etiquette. Instead of taking a portion he takes all of what is passed to him. Of the wine he takes a glass and puts the bottle in his pocket. The ice water he pours into the lap of the lady next to him and makes himself in general so obnoxious that he must be put from the room. He enters again and again, mounting the table and creating consternation among the party. Later the belated host appears and takes the vacant seat, and dinner is finished without further mishap. Returning to the drawing room the party is enjoying a little music and a dance when the substitute guest reappears, tries to dance with the hostess, mounts the piano, and with difficulty is evicted. Good action and well rendered throughout. P. D. 507X. ON THE 3PEEE. Price, $50.04. Approximate Length, 417 feet. This comedy recites pictorially the adventures of hubby on a spree and his reception and subsequent entertainment by his spouse upon his return to home and happiness. The series opens with the view of a saloon, and from the door thereof Mr. Lark makes a rather sudden lunge and lands in the 173