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  • For Repairs (1914)
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For Repairs (1914)
Short | Short, Drama
John Fields, his wife, and little daughter, constitute a happy family, until the husband and father falls into the habit of spending his spare hours at his clubs, often remaining away from dinner at home. At last Mrs. Fields decides to ...See moreJohn Fields, his wife, and little daughter, constitute a happy family, until the husband and father falls into the habit of spending his spare hours at his clubs, often remaining away from dinner at home. At last Mrs. Fields decides to play the pleasure-seeking role herself. After a last vain protest to her husband she plunges into the social whirl, employing a nurse maid for the child. Returning one evening after a busy afternoon of calls and other feminine affairs, her husband takes her severely to task for neglecting him and the home. She retorts and a quarrel follows. Within a few days a breach has widened between them so that they plan to seek a divorce. Just before the culminating quarrel and the final decision to separate. Mrs. Field, expecting to remain at home, excuses the maid for the afternoon. Later, when she is about to accompany her husband to a lawyer's office the problem of what to do with the child arises. Expecting that their legal business can be transacted within an hour, the child being asleep, the husband suggests locking her in the bedroom. The wife, against her better judgment, agrees, and they leave the child alone in the house. While in the lawyer's office Mrs. Fields, idly scanning a newspaper, finds a notice inserted by the local gas company warning consumers that the gas in the public mains will be turned off between 4 and 4:15 o'clock for repairs. It lacks but ten minutes of the fatal hour and half of this time is wasted in indecision. Then begins a frantic chase for home to rescue the child, but delays occur and it is 4:30 before they reach the house. Meanwhile the gas has been turned off and the flame which Mrs. Fields left burning in her bedroom goes out. The cock remains open, ready, at 4:15 to pour out the deadly fumes into the room where the child is sleeping. As the frantic parents burst into the room they find the child unconscious and their worst fears are apparently realized, but the sound of their voices causes her to open her eyes. Then, with a sleepy smile she reaches her little arms up and places one around the neck of each parent. They, realizing the depth of their love for the child, are reconciled. How the child escaped death is explained in the final scene. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less
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Director
Paul Powell
Writer
Will M. Ritchey (story)
Producer
Siegmund Lubin
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Updated Sep 18, 1914
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Sep 18, 1914 (United States)

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