Gloria Swanson's first film: suffragettes vs. thirsty husbands in 18 chaotic minutes.
Once a lot of grown-up girls organized a club for the discussion of current evils. The principal current evil they discussed was man. The object was to find some way to keep them home at nights. One dame thought every wife ought to provide her companion with an intellectual atmosphere so he wouldn't sneak out at night to the thirst parlor.
Acting
Gloria Swanson's uncredited debut — the future Sunset Blvd. legend begins.
Production
Surviving only in description — the ultimate lost film phantom.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Gloria Swanson was 15 and still in school when she filmed this — her mother chaperoned her to the Essanay studio in Chicago.
This satirizes the contemporary 'woman's club' movement and temperance crusades — the 'thirst parlor' euphemism winks at Prohibition's 1920 arrival.
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