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  • Almost a Papa (1915)
  • Short | Comedy, Short
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Almost a Papa (1915)
Short | Comedy, Short
Tom Conley is a traveling man, selling suspension bridges. Not having made a sale in five years, he is reprimanded by the firm and ordered to get busy. His wife, who has secretly cherished the idea of purchasing a dog, purchases one while ...See moreTom Conley is a traveling man, selling suspension bridges. Not having made a sale in five years, he is reprimanded by the firm and ordered to get busy. His wife, who has secretly cherished the idea of purchasing a dog, purchases one while her husband is on a six months' business trip. Not having the ready cash, and hearing the cry of an old clothes man, she sells a lot of Tom's old clothes to raise the necessary amount. Fearing to tell her husband that she is going to purchase a dog, she writes him a diplomatic letter, intimating that there will soon be an addition to the family, whereupon the astonished Tom, who has been away for five months, decides that the new addition is a baby. He goes wild with joy, throws up his job and celebrates hilariously by getting intoxicated and telling several mothers how they should handle their children. Upon receiving a wire from his wife that the new addition has arrived, he hurries home, and in a local toy store he purchases a number of baby playthings. Upon his arrival home he is informed by the maid that his wife has gone to his mother's. Then a great idea strikes him. He will fit up a nursery for the infant. A room is set aside for the purpose. Swings and all sorts of things are hung from the ceiling. In the midst of all the preparations he steps on a go cart, slips and injures himself. The doctor is summoned. The patient is put to bed and he thinks of his accident insurance policy. Wifie returns home to find her husband seriously injured. She hurries to his side when he inquires about the new addition. She bids him be quiet, as there is plenty of time to see it. He inquires for his accident insurance policy, telling her that it is in his blue suit hanging in the closet, and then she discovers that it was the very suit that she had sold to the old clothes man in order to buy the dog. Unable to stay in bed with a vision of an infant before him, Tom hobbles out of his room and goes downstairs and begs his wife to let him see the newcomer. The wife steals from the room and returns on tiptoes with a large clothes basket lined with eiderdown and covered with a silk spread. Then Tom bends over the delicate basket and, to his utter amazement, blinks up at him a cute little puppy. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less
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Director
Henry MacRae (as Henry McRae)
Writer
Raymond L. Schrock
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Updated Dec 14, 1915
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Dec 14, 1915 (United States)

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