At the Phone (1912) [N/A]
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Featuring:
Darwin Karr, Blanche Cornwall
Release Date:
November 1, 1912
Original Title:
At the Phone
Genres:
Drama
Production Companies:
Solax Film Company
Production Countries:
United States of America
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Mr. Dean, a wealthy broker, at the hospital awaits with nervous expectancy the results of an operation on his wife. With impatience he paces up and down the wardroom, and finally in order to fill in the untenable space he decides to call up his "kiddies" and gain solace in a few moments' talk with them. When central gives him the connection he hears first to his bewilderment, and then to his utter dismay and unrestrainable excitement, two strange voices saying, "Well, if the kids make a holler, we'll shut 'em up for good, eh? This safe will be easy." Dean doesn't know whether to stay at the hospital and wait to hear the result of the operation, or run to the rescue of his little ones. He is about to rush out of the ward, when the doctors come back bearing his wife. They notice his wild excitement, and by force keep him out of her way. The strain is too great for Dean. He falls in a dead faint. At the house before Mr. Dean had called, the nurse, in a rush to receive and hurry away with her beau, forgets about hanging up the receiver, after talking to the butcher. The burglars enter, go through the house and decide that they will not hurt the sleeping children, so long as they slept, but in discussing their plans in the library near the safe and open 'phone, which central vainly tried to have closed, they are overheard by the anxious Mr. Dean. The burglars are surprised at their work by a wide-awake policeman and the children are saved and brought to the side of their mother. When Mr. Dean is revived he starts for the 'phone to telephone the police to save his children, but to his amazement and delight, he sees them in the arms of his dear wife.
