toward the astonished servant. She plays mischief with him, and after a series of tricks she pours a bucket of white fluid over him. This done, she steps back into the frame again and the picture is complete exactly as it had been before. The dumbfounded and angry servant now seizes a broom and begins to beat the canvas, which awakens the painter, and the result is another beating for the artist's assistant.
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1018–1022. Bakers in Trouble. Length, 365 feet. Price
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$43.80 |
Two bakers are seen in a shop baking bread. One is kneading the dough and the other is shaping it into loaves. After they have finished some of the work and placed same in oven they seat themselves and partake of wine and play cards. While they are thus engaged the proprietor enters and is very much surprised to find them neglecting the loaves which are baking in the oven. He upbraids them for their negligence and leaves them to finish their work. After they have been left alone for a few minutes they again take to drinking and playing and are now seen so extremely intoxicated that they enter into a brawl and one throws the other into the trough, where there is plenty of dough. The cries of the one cast in bring the proprietor and a number of other employees into the room, and when he is rescued he is well bedaubed.
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1023–1029. An Angelic Servant. Length, 483 feet. Price
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$57.96 |
The chief actor is a kitchen maid who becomes envious of her madam's daughters as they enjoy themselves at the piano, arrayed in their finery. After serving them their tea she goes straight to their boudoir, and with a little selecting she has soon chosen some garments to suit her liking and she goes out for a promenade. She is soon accosted by an artistic masher, and he devotes much chesterfieldian energy toward capturing the fashionably attired damsel. He succeeds, and being near a shoe dealer's takes kindly to her expressed desire for a pair of shoes, and is soon escorting her into the store. While they are doing their buying the girl's madam enters, and of course recognition is speedy; and just as speedy comes a sharp order to divest herself of the garments which she had obtained by grace of her own permission; she humbly complies and is soon hurrying home, an aproned kitchen maid, to the astonishment of the deceived masher. The rest of the party follow her, including the dude, and when they find her she is gently hustled into the kitchen below, but not before the dude had reclaimed and recovered the shoes for which he paid. These he takes back to the dealer's, but is refused the return of the money, and his adventure ends in a row. The last picture shows the much subdued kitchen maid in the embrace of a more appropriate lover, the dishwasher.
1030–1034. The Knight of Black Art. Length, 371 feet. Price $44.52.
We are introduced to the banqueting hall of an old-time castle. Servitors stand awaiting the arrival of their master, who, appearing on the scene, throws his cloak to an attendant; unbuckling his sword, he hands him that also, then at the word of command the attendant throws them upward and they vanish. The knight then takes two large rings, a sheet of paper, which he places on one of the rings, then fitting the other over the paper draws it taut as a drum. Two attendants then hold the paper-covered rings upright, another hands a
