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  • The Butler (1916)
  • Short | Comedy, Short
The Butler (1916)
Short | Comedy, Short
Mrs. Van Webber is giving a dinner and reception in honor of her daughter's return from college. Things are going along smoothly, when a telegram arrives which calls all servants out on strike. Leaving Mrs. Van Webber in a quandary as to ...See moreMrs. Van Webber is giving a dinner and reception in honor of her daughter's return from college. Things are going along smoothly, when a telegram arrives which calls all servants out on strike. Leaving Mrs. Van Webber in a quandary as to who will prepare the dinner, Gwendoline suggests that Otto, their hired man, be allowed to take charge of the dinner. When the striking servants learn that Otto has taken their jobs, they station their gang around the house and whenever Otto appears they threaten him until he gets nervous and wants to throw up the job. But Mrs. Van Webber gives him more money and Otto starts in anew. The strikers now thoroughly aroused at Otto, chase him through the house and stone him. They finally knock him out and leave him in a heap on the floor, where the guests find him, carry him upstairs and put him to bed. When he wakes and sees the guests, he says: "I didn't know America was in de Vor." Then he falls back in a faint. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less
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Director
Edwin McKim
Writer
Edwin McKim (scenario)
Producer
Siegmund Lubin
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Updated Mar 13, 1916
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Mar 13, 1916 (United States)

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