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The House of Terrible Scandals (1917)
Short | Short, Comedy

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The House of Terrible Scandals (1917)

Short | Short, Comedy

Henry Lehrman and Billie Ritchie, as the result of a gay night, are visited by a joint nightmare which shows them the horrors of their present life. First, a cat knocked a birdcage down upon them and then chased a mouse into the yawning ...See moreHenry Lehrman and Billie Ritchie, as the result of a gay night, are visited by a joint nightmare which shows them the horrors of their present life. First, a cat knocked a birdcage down upon them and then chased a mouse into the yawning face of Henry. Then both Henry and Billie sought to take a bath at the same time in the one bath their hotel boasted. Then Billie found himself on the end of a ladder, balanced over a railing eighteen stories above the street. All of a sudden, the bath overflowed and washed everything in the hotel out into the street. Then the two woke up just in time to attend a reception given in honor of the young woman Billie was to wed. Just to queer the affair, Henry held a lighted match in front of Billie's mouth and the breath therefrom, being inflammable because of the previous night's indulgence in firewater, burst into flame. At the luncheon table Henry sat next to a lady who ate her soup aloud. He put a carnation in his ear as a sort of silencer, but the lady removed it. Then he placed before her a copy of the song, "I Hear You Calling Me," and she ate in time with the music, while he marked time with a fork. Finally, he captured the end of a piece of spaghetti which was being inhaled by one of the diners and inserted it in the noisy soup. In a flash the soup disappeared up the spaghetti tube and the noise was stopped. Then the house caught fire and Henry rushed out to summon aid. He found a hose lying loose in the street and carried it into the burning building, proceeding to play its contents on the flames. The hose was connected with the traveling equipment of a gasoline vendor and what Henry thought was water was gasoline, so that didn't help put out the fire very much. The fire and police departments were called and they ran over each other trying to get to the fire. The fire department finally got there, but the police department fell through the street into a sewer. Everybody was rescued. The building was burned to the ground, a runaway locomotive crashed through a string of box cars and that's about all. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less

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6 cast members

Name	Known for
Billie Ritchie Actor Actor See fewer	Life and Moving Pictures (1915)
Dot Farley Actress Actress See fewer	The Red Kimono (1926)
Gertrude Selby Actress Actress See fewer	The Double Room Mystery (1917)
Henry Lehrman Actor Actor See fewer	Why Sailors Go Wrong (1928)
Bert Roach Actor Actor See fewer	So Long Letty (1929)
Sidney Smith Actor (as Sid Smith) Actor (as Sid Smith) See fewer	The Ne'er Do Well (1915)