The Henpecked Hod Carrier - Production & Contact Info (original) (raw)

Mr. Henpeck was a hod carrier who could always be depended upon to put in his regular hours each day. His wife encouraged him to keep on working, but she herself spent most of her time looking up bargains and attending the meetings of ...See moreMr. Henpeck was a hod carrier who could always be depended upon to put in his regular hours each day. His wife encouraged him to keep on working, but she herself spent most of her time looking up bargains and attending the meetings of various societies in which she was interested. One day Mrs. Henpeck had a quarrel with the janitor and decided to move. She found a "perfectly darling flat" in another street, and that evening told her long-suffering husband that the following day he would have to stay home and pack. He obeyed because there was nothing else for him to do, and in the morning had several hours' hard work arranging their belongings for shipment to the new house, while his wife gaily wandered out to attend a bargain sale. Mr. Henpeck moved into the new house all right, and found that the paperhangers had gone on a strike; so in addition to his regular work of setting things to rights he was compelled to paper the house. It was a good hard day's work he had and he was just resting up at night when his wife appeared, told him that he had made a mistake and had moved into the wrong flat, and that it was absolutely necessary that they get into the right apartment before dawn. It was tough on Mr. Henpeck, but then, of course, he should not have made the mistake. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less