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  • The Janitor's Quiet Life (1913)
  • Short | Short, Comedy
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The Janitor's Quiet Life (1913)
Short | Short, Comedy
The janitor prided himself on the conservative atmosphere of respectability that pervaded the apartment house over which he presided. He was a beneficent despot. The conservative atmosphere of respectability was rudely shattered one ...See moreThe janitor prided himself on the conservative atmosphere of respectability that pervaded the apartment house over which he presided. He was a beneficent despot. The conservative atmosphere of respectability was rudely shattered one afternoon by a band of boys and goats, who invaded the street before the apartment house. The outraged janitor rushed forth, and bade them seek other regions for their riotous play. Naturally enough, the proud hearing of the janitor irritated the free and independent spirits of the boys, and it was largely on his account that they decided to have a circus in one of the vacant apartments. Accordingly, they quietly led their interesting pets up the stairs and installed them in the parlor of a vacant flat. They came up as cautiously and secretly as so many ghosts, and started their circus with lowered voices and hushed footfalls, but in the growing excitement of the game their early caution soon deserted them. To the people in the apartment directly beneath there came gradually the sound of shrill voices and the stamp of hoofed feet. They listened in growing bewilderment to the strange and unwanted noise, and then arose and sought their faithful janitor. The janitor assured them that they must be mistaken. Noise in his apartment house was an absurd supposition. At length, when they grew insistent, he accompanied them upstairs, only to find a complete and awful silence. The boys, warned in time, had retreated to a more remote portion of the apartment. Shortly after the janitor left, however, the noise broke out again with redoubled vigor. This time other tenants heard it and the janitor was besieged by a clamoring horde who whispered darkly that the house must be haunted. Eager to wipe out this calumny on his beloved domain, the janitor resolved to make a thorough search. Room after room of the apartment was searched in vain. At length before the last door, the janitor stooped to examine an unexplained wisp of hay. As he stooped, the door opened cautiously, and an enraged goat appeared. The rest is too painful. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less
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Director
Charles M. Seay
Writer
Dan Mason
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Updated Dec 24, 1913
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Dec 24, 1913 (United States)

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Dan Mason
The Janitor The Janitor   See fewer
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2nd Boy (as Andrew Clark) 2nd Boy (as Andrew Clark)   See fewer
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