While You Wait (1916) [NR]
Featuring:
Harry Watson, Della Connor, H.H. McCullum
Directed by:
Louis Myll
Release Date:
July 4, 1916
Original Title:
While You Wait
Genres:
Comedy
Production Companies:
George Kleine Productions
Production Countries:
United States of America
Ratings / Certifications:
US: NR
Runtime: 14
Musty Suffer gets a job as a maid. Then he gets a job as a butler, in the same household. Then he gets a job as a gardener. This becomes complicated.
Out of a job, Musty haunts the employment agency. The boss tells him that help is scarce these days, and that whatever anyone calls for, Musty will have to be it. In order to fit him for holding any job whatsoever, the boss turns him loose with a variety of costumes, and Musty proves his ability as a quick change artist. The boss receives a call from a fair client, who wants a maid, and Musty dons feminine regalia and answers the call. He gets the job. One of his first tasks is to go to the employment agency and get a butler for his new mistress. When he arrives at the agency the boss tells him he can be the butler, too. Musty changes to a butler's costume and goes back, but takes his maid's costume with him. Being both butler and maid in the same house, Musty has to move in lively fashion to keep on both jobs at once. Then, to make things worse, he is sent, in his capacity of butler, to hire a gardener. The employment agency boss gives Musty a third costume and another pair of false whiskers and sends him to hold down the third job in addition to the original two. Musty strides happily into the house when he suddenly catches sight of himself in the mirror. The result is almost fatal. One look at his own face bedecked in the false mustaches nearly finishes him, but he braces up and bravely sees the trouble through. In his capacity of maid, our hero is set to washing windows. The ladder on which he is standing falls through the window and Musty escapes a long fall only by hanging to the sill by his knees. His fair mistress rescues him and Musty sets to work to rescue the ladder. He drops a rope and calls upon an amiable entomologist for help. The entomologist leaves the butterfly he is chasing to come to Musty's aid. He ties the rope to the ladder and signals Musty to haul away. And Musty does, but the unfortunate bug expert gets his legs entangled in the ladder and is pulled upward, only to be lowered several times into a well-filled rain-barrel when Musty and his mistress, whom he has called upon for help, lose their grip upon the rope. Finally the victim is hauled into and through the house, and Musty attaches the rope to an automobile, which dashes off, dragging ladder, entomologist and, as a climax, Musty himself, who is caught in the mix-up as the picture fades.
