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An Eventful Bargain Day (1912)
Short | 7 min | Comedy, Short

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An Eventful Bargain Day (1912)

Short | 7 min | Comedy, Short

Young wife Josephine plans to go to a bargain sale and, as her baby's nurse is away and her husband at work, she decides to take the baby with her, but leaves him asleep in his perambulator and hurries into the store. Smithers, a bachelor ...See moreYoung wife Josephine plans to go to a bargain sale and, as her baby's nurse is away and her husband at work, she decides to take the baby with her, but leaves him asleep in his perambulator and hurries into the store. Smithers, a bachelor passing the store, hears the baby crying and, seeing no one in sight, picks him up to comfort him and absentmindedly strolls away with him in his arms. Kate, a spinster, happens along with her dog and seeing a sign "No Dogs Allowed,'' and wanting to enter the bargain sale, places her dog in Josephine's baby's pram. Josephine comes out of the store, places her bundles in the carriage and wheels the dog home, where to her consternation she discovers her baby is gone with the dog in his place. She phones her husband, who rushes home from his office, and the couple rush to the nearest station house wheeling the dog, where they report their loss. Meanwhile, the spinster exits the store to find the carriage and her dog gone, and she rushes madly off in search of it. A stranger she questions directs her to the police station to which she immediately goes, meeting Josephine and her husband with the dog, which they refuse to give up until their baby is returned. While all this is happening, old Smithers has returned to the store; finding the perambulator gone he enters and inquires of all the women buyers if the baby is theirs. They leave in a huff and old Smithers, not knowing what to do, takes the baby to his home. Becoming alarmed, he decides to take it to a police station, but is stopped on the street by a policeman who has been sent out in search of the baby and taken by him to the same station that holds Josephine, her husband, Kate, and the dog. Explanations follow. Josephine clasps her baby to her breast, as Kate does her dog. Old Smithers apologizes and the "Bargain Day" ends happily for all. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less

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4 cast members

Name	Known for
Violet Horner Josephine Lee - The Wife Josephine Lee - The Wife See fewer	Lena Rivers (II) (1914)
Hayward Mack Robert Lee - The Husband Robert Lee - The Husband See fewer	Oliver Twist, Jr. (1921)
William Welsh John Smither - A Bachelor (as William J. Welsh) John Smither - A Bachelor (as William J. Welsh) See fewer	The Bull's Eye (1917)
Florence Ashbrooke Kate Andrews - A Spinster Kate Andrews - A Spinster See fewer	On Dangerous Ground (1917)