Sh! Don't Wake the Baby - Production & Contact Info (original) (raw)

The Youngparent's baby is afflicted with insomnia. Launcelot Youngparent, coming home after a Fifth Avenue "bus" ride in which he has been deprived of his watch by "Honest Bill," the burglar, is met by his wife with the pleasing ...See moreThe Youngparent's baby is afflicted with insomnia. Launcelot Youngparent, coming home after a Fifth Avenue "bus" ride in which he has been deprived of his watch by "Honest Bill," the burglar, is met by his wife with the pleasing information that the baby is asleep. Despite the dangers of a hand-organ and the songful canary, dinner is passing off silently and safely when the cook unfortunately drops a pile of plates and wakes the baby. She is dismissed. After two hours of strenuous effort on the part of the parents they succeed in putting the youngster to sleep by tangoing with him to the Victrola, and depart to bed, tired but triumphant. Enter Honest Bill through the nursery window. To his horror he sees that his entrance has awakened the baby, who is on the point of howling again. In desperation Bill walks the floor with the unruly infant, heats bis milk over his bulls-eye lantern, and, after working to the point of exhaustion, is just easing the sleeping baby into his crib when Mrs. and Mr. Youngparent appear, suspecting the baby has awakened. Motioning them for silence, Bill finishes his nursemaid duties and proceeds to hold up the head of the house (in whispers) at the point of his pistol. Mrs. Youngparent tiptoes to the phone and calls up the police station, begging for aid, and requesting that a policeman come, softly, as the baby is asleep. A policeman appears (on tiptoe), arrests Bill (in whispers) and searches him for dangerous weapons. The search results in the capture from his back pocket of a fearsome milk bottle. As the Youngparents steal fearfully to the crib, the burglar having been removed, they find their young hopeful sleeping peacefully, and clutched tightly in the baby's hand is the very watch which Bill had removed from his father in the Fifth Avenue "bus" a few hours before, and which, the baby in turn had captured from Bill during the putting-to-sleep process. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less