While She Powdered Her Nose - Production & Contact Info (original) (raw)

In facial decoration Ellen is an artist and never appears in company without adding to her beauty every touch to arouse the admiration of the most indifferent of the sterner sex. John Thorpe, a wealthy young man, calls one afternoon to see...See moreIn facial decoration Ellen is an artist and never appears in company without adding to her beauty every touch to arouse the admiration of the most indifferent of the sterner sex. John Thorpe, a wealthy young man, calls one afternoon to see her. She is not prepared to receive it when he sends his card up and she tells him she will see him in a moment. Hoping to make herself most charming, she takes so much time in dressing and "kalsomining" herself, Thorpe becomes impatient and sits down at the piano, playing several selections which he finds on the music rack. While thus engaged, a young lady friend of Ellen's the orphaned daughter of a composer, calls to see her and she overhears Thorpe playing one of her father's compositions. Involuntarily, she becomes absorbed and enters the parlor. Thorpe is surprised to see her and she is not less confused, when she finds herself in his presence. She explains her unintentional interruption by telling him about her father's composition which he had been playing. They manifest a mutual interest in each other and if develops that it is a case of love at first sight. Thorpe proposes to her and she consents to become his wife. During this courtship and engagement in the parlor, Ellen is still busily engaged decorating her face. At last she is ready, but alas, when she reaches the parlor to receive her anticipated admirer, the butler gives her a note which informs her that Thorpe and her young lady friend, whom he met in the parlor, had gotten tired of waiting, had become engaged and had gone to secure a marriage license. Ellen is nonplussed, piqued, gives vent to her feelings in a display of anger which is dispelled when the butler announces the arrival of one of the poorer admirers, who ardently loves her, and announces he has come to ask her to accept him in marriage and not being willing to take another chance, she falls into his arms a willing subject of his embraces. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less