Good scenarios must be scarce when the Biograph Company will utilize one maimed from the start as this one is. The situation can be put in a nutshell. The old confectioner was friendly with certain children. Ice- cream was ordered for their picnic, which was to be held in a pleasant grove outside the city. The confectioner had a bad toothache and got laudanum to ease it. By mistake he poured the bottle full of laudanum in place of vanilla into the cream. Half an hour after the cream had been started on its way, the mistake was discovered and (hindered by cleverly arranged difficulties) the old man has much trouble in getting to the grove in time to save the children. They are saved, but their picnic is spoiled; they have no ice-cream. How can such a picture be popular? - The Moving Picture World, September 23, 1911
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