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  • A Case of Beans (1915)
  • Short | Comedy, Short
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A Case of Beans (1915)
Short | Comedy, Short
A newly-married pair have set up housekeeping in an apartment. The young wife is devoted to bridge and insists on entertaining her club friends at the expense of her young husband's comfort. When he comes home from work for lunch, she ...See moreA newly-married pair have set up housekeeping in an apartment. The young wife is devoted to bridge and insists on entertaining her club friends at the expense of her young husband's comfort. When he comes home from work for lunch, she forces him to eat on a corner of the kitchen table and to be satisfied with a can of beans after she has spent the morning preparing an elaborate lunch for her guests. He rebels at this constant diet of beans and fills an empty can with gravel, a new label on it taken from another can of beans, sets the can on the shelf, and departs for lunch. The bridge party arrives, enjoys the day, and discusses a big burglary reported. The ladies all insist that the hostess take charge of their jewels and put them in the safety deposit vault box which she owns. She accepts the trust and while waiting an opportunity to go to the vault hides the jewels in an empty can which she labels "Beans." These jewels she leaves for a moment while dressing for the street, and her cook, who discovers them as she is about to treat the ice man to a light lunch of canned beans. They both decide that the master and mistress are the thieves and begin a system of espionage that has its embarrassments for all parties. The young bride sets forth for the safety vault, carrying the can of gravel by mistake, and is followed by the two "detectufs," meets her husband on the way, explains her mission and he laughs at her, but she goes on and he, continuing on his way toward home, discovers the cook and ice man following her. He discovers the jewels in a can which they are carrying, learns the facts as well as the suspicions that exist and plays a joke on all parties concerned that has a back-fire to it in the fact that he is compelled to eat the can of gravel before he gets through. Of course, there is a happy ending and a readjustment of values, in which the young bride forswears bridge and beans. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less
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L.V. Jefferson (scenario) (as Louis V. Jefferson)
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Updated Aug 26, 1915
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Aug 26, 1915 (United States)

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