Hello, Trouble (1913)

• 71%
• 1913
• Comedy
• Billy Mason
• Ruth Hennessy
• Charles J. Stine

Joe Cutup, a stenographer, working for O.U. Grouch, flirts with Bess Busybody, a typist across the court. Joe places a card in the window with his telephone number on it, requesting her to call. She calls him, but is cut very short when it happens to be Grouch that answers the phone. The janitress, a messenger boy and others, seeing the card fall easy victims, and call the number, and each time Grouch answers the phone, becoming more furious every time it rings. At last he calls the telephone manager and secures the phone number that had caused him so much trouble. He gives the party on the other end of the wire particular trouble. One word leads to another and the two men arrange to fight it out on the roof. O.U. Grouch and I.R. Stem, Miss Busybody's employer, are settling their difficulties, while the two stenographers sit in the office window and watch them. They both lose their positions. Many comical situations are brought about, while the two are looking for employment.