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A Game for Two (1912)
Short | Comedy, Short

A Game for Two (1912)

Short | Comedy, Short

John Hartman, a most learned writer on subjects far beyond the ken of his wife, further aggravates matters by collaborating with a "blue stocking." The collaborator is Mrs. DeWitt Turner, a widow of mentality, whose literary work appeals ...See moreJohn Hartman, a most learned writer on subjects far beyond the ken of his wife, further aggravates matters by collaborating with a "blue stocking." The collaborator is Mrs. DeWitt Turner, a widow of mentality, whose literary work appeals strongly to Hartman. Hartman's wife is not at all unaware of the widow's semblance of attractiveness, and resents very bitterly the hours her husband spends over his collaboration. The last straw is laid upon his wife's delicate shoulders when he breaks an opera engagement at the sudden call of the widow, who has a bad habit of receiving sudden inspirations at very uncomfortable times for Hartman's wife, and commits her to the care of a young bachelor, that she may not lose her evening at the opera. Smithers, the bachelor, is an easy-going young fellow and Bess decides that the time is ripe to give her complacent husband a severe jolt. Despite Smithers' ineffectual protest and resistance, Bess fairly forces the young fellow to allow her to have supper after the opera in his apartment, unchaperoned, but unknown to Smithers, leaves a note for her husband, which he received upon his late return, telling her intention to sup with his friend Smithers, and that if he is a wise husband, he will call for her. Now Hartman, despite his literary absorption, is only human, and he remembers that Smithers is a rather attractive young fellow. The results are beyond her wildest hopes. Her husband, inflamed by jealousy, attempts to force his way past the hall-boys in the building, and Smithers, in the fear of meeting him, and unable to beat a safer retreat, makes a hurried departure by the fire-escape. Now, Smithers' apartment is in the same building as the widow's. They are separated only by a wall, and the at-times fair "blue stocking," innocent of cosmetics and other artificial aids to beauty, is preparing to retire for the night, and rather exulting over the uneasiness which she infers her evening with Hartman has inflicted upon Bess. She is about to raise her window, when she beholds a man's face peering through the glass. She flies into the hall and beats upon the door of the next apartment, crying for help. Bess, who has locked Smithers out on the fire-escape, lets her in, and the widow retreats into a clothes-closet before the sudden entrance of Hartman. Without a word of reproach to his wife, Hartman seeks Smithers, thirsty for the blood of the friend who has led his wife into a compromising situation. The search leads to the kitchenette, and Bess triumphantly locks him into that 2x4 room, and then, performing a like service for the widow in the stuffy clothes-closet, and Hartman attempting to sleep on an ironing-board, pass a pleasant night until the return of Smithers' valet in the morning, who releases them all, to the consternation of the widow, that the man she has been angling for should see her in such a condition. Hartman returns to his home and finds his wife's room has evidently not been occupied. Unable to comprehend what it all means, but only feeling that his heart is broken at the thought that Bess has left him for that infernal Smithers, he goes to his library with the intention of destroying the work, which he feels has been responsible for his loss, and finds that comfortably curled up in his big chair, still in her evening gown, with mussed hair and flushed face is his wife. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less

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Herbert Prior John Hartman John Hartman See fewer	Why Girls Go Back Home (1926)
Mabel Trunnelle Bess Hartman Bess Hartman See fewer	The Master Passion (1917)

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