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The Servant Problem; or, How Mr. Bullington Ran the House (1912)
Short | Comedy, Short

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The Servant Problem; or, How Mr. Bullington Ran the House (1912)

Short | Comedy, Short

Mr. Bullington is burdened with flesh and a weeping wife. He is the adipose head of a small family consisting principally of himself. Though he has an emotional wife, with headaches, tears and nerves, so have other men. Bullington has ...See moreMr. Bullington is burdened with flesh and a weeping wife. He is the adipose head of a small family consisting principally of himself. Though he has an emotional wife, with headaches, tears and nerves, so have other men. Bullington has something more important than a wife in these strenuous days; he has an appetite, and when his meals are not cooked and served to meet his inner cravings he rises from the table, demands a new deck of cards, and sends his wife down to the kitchen to discharge the cook. All the resolution delicate and refined she can summon is destroyed in one blow of the cook's mighty fist on the kitchen table. The house jumps and weeping wifey flees to hubby. It is now his turn, and the scene that follows is highly amusing without breaking any crockery. After a second cook receives the same fate, Bullington decides that he will do the cooking, and he does. Fat and fussy, he sweats and swelters, scorches himself and scalds himself, seasons retail soup with wholesale condiments, but he sticks to it. He and wifey sit down to a self-prepared meal, and the rest is told by facial expression such as moving pictures seldom bring out. Bullington and his wife are desperate. They try living on Uneeda biscuits and a bottle of milk, but these are properties of the regulation motion-picture "poor room," where mother is fading away from the effects of a racking cough when the landlord comes to collect the rent. They learn over the phone that they can get a good cook, but she is an Englishwoman with three children. In spite of these manifest disadvantages, they take her, and she appears before them with her three children. The new cook's methods are startling in the extreme, but they are effective in the end. The wrecked kitchen resumes its normal cheer, and the dinner most formally served is without fault or flaw. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less

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Name	Known for
Hughie Mack Mr. Barton Bullington Mr. Barton Bullington See fewer	Bringing Up Father (1915)
Florence Turner Mrs. Fanny Bullington Mrs. Fanny Bullington See fewer	Far from the Madding Crowd (1915)
Kate Price Bedelia - The First Cook Bedelia - The First Cook See fewer	Quality Street (1927)
Lillian Walker Helga Svenson - The Second Cook Helga Svenson - The Second Cook See fewer	Hearts and the Highway (1915)
Flora Finch Harriet Jenkins - The Third Cook Harriet Jenkins - The Third Cook See fewer	The Cat and the Canary (1927)
Veronica Finch One of the Third Cook's Three Children One of the Third Cook's Three Children See fewer	The Governor Who Had a Heart (1912)
Helene Costello One of the Third Cook's Three Children One of the Third Cook's Three Children See fewer	The Fatal Warning (1929)
Jesse Kelly One of the Third Cook's Three Children One of the Third Cook's Three Children See fewer	In the Garden Fair (1912)