The Classmate's Frolic

1913
7m

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As a punishment for falling asleep during the Preceptress' lecture, Alice is obliged to remain in her room alone for three days. She becomes restless and seeing some of her schoolmates outsi... Read allAs a punishment for falling asleep during the Preceptress' lecture, Alice is obliged to remain in her room alone for three days. She becomes restless and seeing some of her schoolmates outside on the campus, gets the janitor to take a note inviting them to come to her room at fou... Read allAs a punishment for falling asleep during the Preceptress' lecture, Alice is obliged to remain in her room alone for three days. She becomes restless and seeing some of her schoolmates outside on the campus, gets the janitor to take a note inviting them to come to her room at four o'clock, and have a jolly good time. The four girls, avoiding the vigilance of the Prece... Read all

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deickemeyer

Little attempt to make the action in the scenes seem natural

An artificial farce giving us some boarding school girl capers that are more or less comical, but never afford true comedy. As in nearly all of these school girl or college boy farces. there is plenty of "front and center" acting and little attempt to make the action in the scenes seem natural. There were a good many in the audience, though, that got a good deal of laughter from it and, looking around, we noticed that there were a number who didn't. It was produced by Ralph Ince from Eugene Mullen's script. Flora Finch is the principal and the girls are Rosemary Theby, Lucile Lee, Lillian Walker, Anna Stewart and Edith Story. William Shea and Charles Edward play the roles of organ grinder and janitor respectively. - The Moving Picture World, February 22, 1913

6boblipton

Five Little Maids from School

Scampish schoolgirls bring an organ grinder (that's a barrel organ, you foul minded scamp!) into the sacred precincts, and alarm old-maid schoolmarm Flora Flinch in this charming little split-reel comedy from Vitagraph.

If your idea of high-school comedy includes cliques and junior-grade snobbery, supervised by seen-it-all staff, this is not a comedy for you. In fact, it is pretty naive, even for the standards of its period, but when you have five pretty Vitagraph starlets beaming and capering about in delight, it's pretty much a given that you don't need much else for a few minutes.

If you wish to see for yourself, there's a handsome copy on the Eye Institute site on Youtube.