Dixie's Day Off - Production & Contact Info (original) (raw)

Jimmy and Nellie have just been married. Both are extremely jealous of each other. Jimmy is in the real estate business and an extremely busy little man, so he bids his wife a hasty good-bye and sets out for work. Now it happens that in ...See moreJimmy and Nellie have just been married. Both are extremely jealous of each other. Jimmy is in the real estate business and an extremely busy little man, so he bids his wife a hasty good-bye and sets out for work. Now it happens that in Jimmy's town a traveling trained animal circus has come to town. At about the same time that Jimmy is bidding his wife good-bye, Dixie, a trained chimpanzee, escapes from his cage, and sets out to see the sights. Professor Lazelle, the animal trainer, has little trouble in following the animal for his course is marked by excited and flying people until the monkey approaches Jimmy's bungalow, where the front door has been inadvertently left open and into which Dixie enters. He is followed a moment later by Nellie and her kitchen maid, Lizzie, who have been busy in the yard dusting a rug. The professor runs on and in an incoherent babbling of French tries to explain that his monkey has entered the house. They mistake him for either a lunatic or possibly a persistent admirer of the pretty Nellie. Both Nellie and the maid rush into the house and telephone Jimmy, but their conversation is interrupted by the frantic animal trainer who has clambered through the parlor window. The women rush out and meet Mike, a footpad, who has barely escaped at this moment from a persistent policeman, who has seen him snatch a woman's handbag. Mike agrees to oust the intruder and accompanies them home. In the meantime, the professor, who has sought in vain for Dixie has departed via the window, while Dixie has contrived to get himself locked in a clothes closet. Jimmy returns at the moment that the two women and Mike have given up all hope of finding the persistent flirt. Thinking Jimmy is the animal trainer returning they take refuge in a closet, leaving Mike to receive the Frenchman. Jimmy is thrown out of his own house twice by Mike. Jimmy hastens off to find a policeman. He finds one and the Frenchman with him. All three hasten back to the house. But Mike, with the ladies safe in the closet, and himself alone in the house, finding a fine assortment of silver in the dining-room is pocketing this when Dixie makes his escape from the wardrobe. Mike is sure it is Satan himself and dashes to the nearest shelter, the top of the shower bath in the bathroom. Here he clings, shouting for help when the policeman, Jimmy and the professor enter. The professor gets back his monkey, but Mike cannot be persuaded to leave his perch until the officer turns on the hot water, when he falls with a splash into the tub of boiling hot water, below. In a cloud of steam Mike is dragged forth, the silver taken from, him and locked up, while Jimmie and Nellie make it up between themselves. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less