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  • The Regeneration of Father (1910)
  • Short | Short, Comedy
The Regeneration of Father (1910)
Short | Short, Comedy
Father takes a dislike to Jack Kendrick and forbids him the house, his hopes and his right to happiness. Jack tries to conquer by politeness, but politeness is wasted on father, who has his mind made up that Kendrick is about the last ...See moreFather takes a dislike to Jack Kendrick and forbids him the house, his hopes and his right to happiness. Jack tries to conquer by politeness, but politeness is wasted on father, who has his mind made up that Kendrick is about the last person he wants for a son-in-law. Several times father catches the lovers spooning and then, of course, the lovers catch it. Jack plans an elopement and bribes the parlor maid to take the note to Laura. Just to kink up the course of true love father sees the passage of the note from Jack to the maid and fires the maid off hand. That means another girl in her place and Jack sees the butler leaving the house for the advertising agency with the want ad. That gives him an idea and he heads for the costumers. It is an easy matter to obtain a woman's wig and the dress and hat to go with it, and Jack makes a rather attractive woman. He is not beautiful in an artistic sense, but he has a regular eye and a winning smile, and once the moustache is taken off he looks the part. The moustache is not a very large one, but it gives him a pain to remove it because it's the best that he could do and it took him quite a number of years to do even that. Laura is worth the sacrifice though, and off go the few tiny hairs while Jack heads for the house. He is first on the ground and father, who is still something of a gay old boy, gets the idea that he is going to like the new girl better than he did her predecessor. Laura is consulted but her approval is purely perfunctory and presently Jack is wielding the duster that is the badge of his office. His trouser legs betray his identity to Laura, who is delighted with the success of his scheme, and they are wrapped in a fond embrace when father's step is heard in the hall and they separate. Father is well pleased to find that Laura approves the new girl and he beams his pleasure. Later he boldly proposes marriage and is not a little surprised when told that he must first marry off his daughter. This seems rather an unusual demand but by this time father is very much in earnest and he signs a formal note authorizing Jack Kendrick to marry his daughter. Jack rushes off with the note and father is still more surprised at the haste, for he has been cheated of the betrothal kiss. He hurries after his fiancée and is superlatively surprised to find his daughter kissing the maid with a fervor that renders strange the girl's refusal to marry until Laura is first disposed of. Blindly he ratifies the announcement of the engagement and is shocked when they tell him that he is not going to marry. To make the matter clear Jack removes his wig and discloses the smiling countenance of father's pet aversion. Father is disposed to rescind his consent, but Jack suggests that the tale, backed up by the written evidence, will make a good story for the club and father wilts. After all it is some consolation to have a son-in-law more clever than he looks and a bless-you-my-children closes the story. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less
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Siegmund Lubin
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Updated May 16, 1910
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May 16, 1910 (United States)

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