- The day is the hottest on record, our bachelor hero, with all possible means of securing relief and comfort at his command, is sweltering in the seclusion of his luxurious apartments. Fuming and fretting, he keeps his distracted valet on the jump to devise new means of relief. Relief comes with the morning mail. The enticing "Hillcrest" prospectus catches his eye and rivets his attention. Visions of purling brooks and quiet nooks in sheltered glades are conjured up by his imagination. It takes but a moment to decide. Orders are given, trunks are packed, and our fat hero is whirled away towards the Promised Land. Arriving at the station he is met by the landlord, a typical "rube," who piles him and his numerous trunks into a ramshackle rig and they start for "Hillcrest." His sad disillusionment dates from the moment that fearful trip begins. Over dusty roads filled with countless "thank-you-marms" that are responsible for a number of extremely comical breakdowns, they at last reach their destination, which furnishes the second chapter of his disillusionment. His adventures in the summer boarding country are portrayed by laughable scenes of a 6 x 8 bedroom under the skylight, of an encounter at the stile with two old maids, of the fall on the hill, of the ludicrous swing accident, not to speak of the depressing hammock incident or the fall into the brook while fishing. One by one the visions created by reading the attractively worded prospectus are shattered and our dispirited hero longs for a return to the city, and "the mad'ding crowd."—Moving Picture World synopsis
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