A send-up of Griffith's THE LONELY VILLA and other movies of that sort, such as THE GIRLS AND DADDY, THE LONEDALE OPERATOR and many others, as the heroine, thinking that burglars are trying to break into her home phones her husband at the office, who rushes home.... well, who tries to rush home in his chauffeur-driven automobile.
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Fred Mace as Mr. Suburbanite
Mabel Normand as Mrs. Suburbanite
Dell Henderson as Office Worker
Edward Dillon as Office Worker
Alfred Paget as Burglar
W.C. Robinson as Burglar
Frank Evans as Wagon Owner
Mack Sennett Director
United States 10 April 1912
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