Pearl's Dilemma (1913)

• 66%
• 1913
• Phillips Smalley

Pearl's janitor quits his job. She advertises for another. Previous to this she has received a letter from the Black Hand threatening to blow up her house unless she paid some money. An Italian calls at her house carrying a bundle, which Pearl and the maid think is a bomb. They telephone for the police and entertain him, and wine and dine him, hoping and praying for the arrival of an officer before he explodes his bomb. When a policeman does arrive and after a struggle subdues the Italian, his dangerous package is opened, and instead of a bomb they find his overalls which he carried with him, expecting to get the job as janitor, which was advertised. Pearl, her dilemma at an end, engages Tony and all ends merrily.