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  • The Romance of an Umbrella (1909)
  • Short | Short, Drama, Romance
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The Romance of an Umbrella (1909)
Short | Short, Drama, Romance
Jimmie Conyers works in a big New York office building, where even air and light are precious and the air shafts are narrow and deep. Just across the shaft on which his window opens Bess Fairkirk presides over the typewriter in a lawyer's ...See moreJimmie Conyers works in a big New York office building, where even air and light are precious and the air shafts are narrow and deep. Just across the shaft on which his window opens Bess Fairkirk presides over the typewriter in a lawyer's office. She is not acquainted with Jimmie, but that does not prevent her from appreciating the fact that he is manly and handsome and, well, appreciative of her own good points. They leave the office about the same hour and Jimmie follows Bess into a quick lunch place, where she has a cup of tea to take the place of the lunch omitted because of the pressure of work. When she goes out she takes Jimmie's umbrella instead of her own and Jimmie welcomes the chance to speak to her. He jumps up to follow her, but before he can rush out the watchful cashier calls to her aid a couple of the waitresses and Jimmie has to pay his check. With this handicap he is barely able to board the same elevated train that she takes. As she leaves the station it commences to rain. Jimmie claims his property, but offers her a share of the umbrella's protection. This she refuses, but it rains harder than ever and she takes shelter in a doorway. Jimmie induces her to share his covering and it leads to an acquaintance that ends in her promise to share his home and fortune, even though both are as small as his heart is big. This is a charming and delightful little romance of New York with the action actually placed in the streets of that city. A novelty is the taking of the rain scene during an actual shower. The raindrops spatter upon the pavement in a manner that convinces the most skeptical that this is no trick effect. It adds vastly to the realism of the picture. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less
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Updated Sep 28, 1909
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Sep 28, 1909 (United States)

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