The Hall-Room Girls (1913)

• 41%
• 1913
• Comedy
• Phillips Smalley
• Pearl White
• Chester Barnett
• Joseph Belmont

Pearl and Charlotte room together. Chester, who is Pearl's beau, and Joe, who is Charlotte's fellow, also room together. Chester borrows Joe's coat and visits Pearl. Pearl receives him in Charlotte's new dress. He invites her to go to a ball. Returning home, Joe takes his suit away from him. The next day he calls on Charlotte. He puts his hand in his coat pocket and finds the ticket Chester had bought for the ball. He invites Charlotte to go with him. The night of the ball, both girls are expecting their friends, but neither tells the other where they are going. The same with the boys. Charlotte lays out her new dress and Pearl, desirous of wearing it, pretends that she has a toothache, and induces Charlotte to run out to the drug store and get her some toothache drops. As soon as she has gone, Pearl dons the dress. Joe has hired a dress suit for the occasion, and goes out to get his shoes shined. Chester discovers the suit, puts it on and leaves before Joe returns. Charlotte returns. She discovers that the dress is missing. Joe returns and discovers the loss of his dress suit. He rushes to Charlotte's house, determining to go in a sack suit, and is surprised to find the two girls fighting and Chester trying to separate them. He engages Chester in battle and the landlady runs out for a policeman. One returns and the two boys are arrested. The girls go to bed and engage in a pillow fight. One of the pillows rips open and the place is strewn with feathers. The girls see the ludicrous side of the affair and make up while Chester and Joe are in a police cell, scheming how they can get out and vowing never to scrap again.