Love, Fireworks and the Janitor - Production & Contact Info (original) (raw)

Young Griggs, private secretary to I. Gottawad, a millionaire clubman, gets a day off, and taking a volume of love sonnets from his employer's library, strolls leisurely to a nearby city park. Mrs. Clymer, who has social aspirations and a ...See moreYoung Griggs, private secretary to I. Gottawad, a millionaire clubman, gets a day off, and taking a volume of love sonnets from his employer's library, strolls leisurely to a nearby city park. Mrs. Clymer, who has social aspirations and a pretty daughter, seeks to entrap Griggs. Finding a card which the secretary has dropped from the book bearing the name Gottawad she mistakes the young man for the millionaire. An introduction is contrived and Mrs. Clymer obtains Griggs' promise to call on them the following evening to dinner. Griggs finds he has fatten in love with the girl and looks forward to the following evening with many pleasant anticipations. Mrs. Clymer looking up Gottawad in the social blue book finds him to be a most desirable catch and, with the idea of making it appear that they are better off than they really are, borrows the best house furnishings of her apartment house neighbors. A finishing touch being needed, she also impresses Mike, the janitor, to play the butler, having found for him a butler's outfit, a relic of a neighbor's former prosperity. Mike also finds a bunch of fireworks, roman candles, sky rockets and the like and promises that with these he will give their guests a regular send-off. The evening of the dinner arrives and Griggs hies himself to the abode of his newly-found friends. Mike, however, attired in his butler's outfit, must show it to his sweetheart, Lizzie, the cook next door and consequently is not at his post of duty when Griggs calls. Griggs enters after rapping for some time at the opened door and seats himself in the parlor. Then, to his dismay, he finds he has arrived without his dress suit waistcoat. Hearing someone coming he dashes for the nearest concealment, a library adjoining the parlor. Here his retreat to the outer hall is entirely cut off and, to his dismay and bewilderment, he hears the family go through a dress rehearsal for his reception. The hour drags by and Griggs fails to appear. Mike slips out to Casey's for a drink. The janitor picks up a roman candle, which was to have been part of the evening's entertainment and accidentally ignites it in the fireplace. The next moment the library is a scene of carnage and explosion. Mother and daughter dash for the hall, narrowly escaping a sky rocket which smashes through the French windows and lands at the feet of Mike and Lizzie. Both armed with pails of water rush into the apartment house. Griggs, who is now on fire, lands in the hall and the flames are quenched by other tenants. Gottawad puts in an appearance at this moment, demanding explanation of a note sent him and meant for Griggs concerning the dinner. Mother finds she has made a mistake and surveys the ruins of the apartment in horror. But, in spite of it all, Griggs makes good with the girl. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less