Polidor's Tragical Hour - Production & Contact Info (original) (raw)

Polidor is a waiter, and is witness of a note being passed by a gentleman customer to a lady who occupies the next table of the café with her husband. The husband seizes the note, which declares that the writer will call at 10 o'clock the ...See morePolidor is a waiter, and is witness of a note being passed by a gentleman customer to a lady who occupies the next table of the café with her husband. The husband seizes the note, which declares that the writer will call at 10 o'clock the same evening, during his (the husband's) absence at the club, and demands to know who wrote it. The wife, to protect the real culprit, points to Polidor. When the husband and wife reach home the former compels the latter to write to Polidor, asking him to come to supper. Polidor accepts the invitation, and the husband, disguised as a footman, ushers him to the table. The "footman " manages to spill all kinds of dishes over the luckless Polidor. On the pretext of showing him the wine cellar, the disguised husband locks him in a room containing a number of old weapons, and orders him to balance an apple on his head, so that the other may shoot at it, William Tell fashion. Polidor suddenly throws the apple at his enemy, upsets him, and covers him up with suits of armor and other debris. He returns to the hall, to find the real lover has turned up, and seizes him. When the husband reappears, Polidor assists him to kick out the enemy, and is then given the footman's uniform and taken into the husband's service as some recompense for his wrongs. Written by The Bioscope - September 26, 1912 See less