A Matter of Record - Production & Contact Info (original) (raw)

Timkins pines for a little evening out once in a while, but Mrs. Timkins thinks a man's place is at home. Timkins purchases a Dictaphone for office use, and soon after gets a great idea. He dictates records, then instructs the night ...See moreTimkins pines for a little evening out once in a while, but Mrs. Timkins thinks a man's place is at home. Timkins purchases a Dictaphone for office use, and soon after gets a great idea. He dictates records, then instructs the night watchman in the use of the machine. At home, Timkins boldly tells Marian that he must work at the office that evening and meets her scornful disbelief with an air of injured innocence, telling her that if she does not believe him she may call him up on the telephone every fifteen minutes. Marian doesn't see how he can beat this game, so she agrees. When she calls up the watchman answers, tells her Mr. Timkins will be there in a moment, then turns on the dictaphone on which he has placed one of the prepared records. Marian is quite satisfied and the headache Timkins has next morning elicits her deep sympathy; she knows he worked almost all night at the office. The scheme continues to work beautifully. A short while later Timkins is dictating letters to the dictaphone, when Marie Forrest, a rosebud, traveling as a typewriter, brings him a batch of typed letters. They are alone in the office, and Timkins trifles a bit, forgetting to stop the recording dictaphone and Marie comes back real readily. That night is another selected for "work at the office" and Marian, according to custom, calls up every fifteen minutes. She gets perfectly satisfactory responses until about 11 o'clock, when the sleepy watchman gets hold of the wrong record. Marian hears a short business letter and then. She of course thinks Timkins at the office all right enough, but the question of where he is isn't nearly so interesting as what he is doing. Next day Mrs. Timkins telephones on behalf of Mr. Timkins, who is indisposed, that Miss Forrest may seek another job. that she (Marian) will do Mr. Timkin's typewriting in the future. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less