The Fable of the Club Girls and the Four Times

Dec 2, 1914

0h 18m

★ 0.0

Overview

Once a lot of grown-up girls organized a club for the discussion of current evils. The principal current evil they discussed was man. The object was to find some way to keep them home at nights. One dame thought every wife ought to provide her companion with an intellectual atmosphere so he wouldn't sneak out at night to the thirst parlor.

Genres

Comedy

Production Companies

The Essanay Film Manufacturing Company

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Cast

The Widow

Lillian Drew

Husband

Robert Bolder

Husband

Leo White

Husband

Harry Dunkinson

The Fourth, an Engineer

Lester Cuneo

One of the Club Girls (uncredited)

Gloria Swanson

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