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Bill Turns Valet
(1915) United States of America
B&W : One reel
Directed by Eddie Dillon (Edward Dillon)
Cast: Bobby Feuhrer (Bobby Ray) [Bill], Fay Tincher [Ethel], Tod Browning [James Hadley, the boss], Max Davidson [the tailor], Eddie Dillon (Edward Dillon)
Komic Company production; distributed by Mutual Film Corporation. / Scenario by Paul West. / Released 7 February 1915. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The 16th film in the “Bill the Office Boy” series. Feuhrer replaced Tammany Young as Bill in the series. Working title: Bill Becomes a Valet.
Comedy.
Synopsis: [Reel Life, 30 January 1915, page ?] Hadley engages a new office boy by the name of Bill. Ethel comes down that morning in a new skirt which she displays to Mabel across the hall. She decides that it is too long, and is wondering how she can get it shortened in time to keep a twelve o’clock luncheon engagement, when Bill comes out of the inner office bound for the tailor’s with his boss’s ink-stained trousers. Ethel gives him her skirt and tells him to hurry. Bill finds the tailor out and decides to make good by doing the repairing himself. Meanwhile, Hadley and Ethel, their nether persons clad in newspapers, are suffering many embarrassments, which finally lead to a visit from the police. But in the nick of time Bill returns with the missing garments — though what he has done to them, under any other circumstances, would have cost him his job.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 21 September 2017.
References: Skal-Browning p. 256 : Website-IMDb.
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