- About a boy growing up and acting like this abusive, alcoholic father.
- The story of this picture is laid in an apartment hotel where the star resides with his wife and young son Bobbie. Bobbie is infatuated with a fascinating creature who lives across the hall. One evening as he prepares to go out, his father smells perfume on him and asks Bobbie if he has been near a woman. Bobbie assures his father he has not, and departs, but instead of leaving the hotel, he hurries across the hall to the room of his sweetheart, where they affectionately embrace. Meanwhile, the hotel clerk, who also is enamored of Bobble's sweetheart, takes a bouquet, goes up the elevator, and knocks at her door. Bobbie not knowing who it is, takes his hat and hides himself behind the screen. The clerk enters and makes violent love to the girl. Bobbie confronts the clerk and a quarrel ensues during which they struggle into the hall. The noise is heard by Bobbie's father and mother who, upon discovering their son a party to it, order him into their apartment. The clerk returns to his office and the girl to her room. Finally, the boy's father decides to tell the young lady she must never see his son again. He takes her picture which he has found in Bobbie's pocket, crosses the hall and enters the girl's room. Before he can give her the harsh message, however, he too falls in love with her and invites her to dine with him. Upon returning to his own apartment he finds his wife dressed and ready to go to the theater with him. He surreptitiously powders, so that when his wife enters his dressing room she finds him very pale and pleading illness, so she leaves him and starts for the theater with Bobbie. The sick man then hastily completes his toilet and joins the girl. While she is putting on her wraps he leans back in the chair and accidentally presses a button which summons the clerk. Upon entering, the clerk realizing his hopes of winning her are blasted, demands her rent which she is unable to pay, but which the gallant Lothario, to hush the matter with the clerk, pays. Mean while, Bobbie and his mother witness a motion picture entitled ''The Serpent in the House", the plot of which is so very nearly identical with the situation through which Bobbie and his sweetheart had passed early in the evening that it startles them, especially when they witness a scene in which the deceitful husband calls upon his son's sweetheart. They leave the theater at once and go to a cabaret, little realizing that the devoted head of their family and the girl had already gone to the same place. Both parties are seen by the still angry hotel clerk who also happens in. He decides to get even and persuades the runaway couple to try same fancy dances. In the midst of the revelry Bobbie's mother sees her husband and confronts him on the floor. He rushes out and to his apartment, and starts packing up preparatory to leaving, but Bobbie reconciles his parents and they kiss and make up. While they are busy with explanations, Bobbie steals across the hall and tells his sweetheart that he has an idea his father will consent to their marriage. Meanwhile, the clerk still bent on revenge, confronts Bobbie's father with bills for the girl's ensuing month's rent. That starts a quarrel and in the melee a lamp is tipped over and sets fire to the apartment and the clerk throws his adversary through a window which is on the tenth floor of the hotel, and the wife faints. The falling man is saved, however, by catching the seat of his trousers on a hook on the third floor. Bobbie goes out for a minister. The girl smells smoke and goes to the apartment across the hall. The door is locked so she crawls through a window, creeps along a narrow ledge, enters the burning apartment, and pluckily saves the fainting woman. Then, seeing the helpless husband hanging by his trousers, she throws out a rope and descending, hand over hand, she reaches him. Just then the firemen having put up a ladder reach for him but only succeed in getting his trousers, leaving him hanging helpless in his B.V.P's. With the help of the girl he is finally rescued and Bobbie having arrived with the minister is united in marriage with his sweetheart, with the blessing of his father and mother, not, however, before the firemen, losing control of their hose, drench the entire party. This of course makes matters uncomfortable for the moment, but is soon forgotten in the happiness and jollity that then prevails.—Copyright Description from Library of Congress
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