His Suicide

			Action 

1. -- Dining-room.  Bill and Myra at table.  He has napkin under chin.  
Drinking coffee.  Speaks.  Myra gets sore.  Throws a plate at him. Startles 
him.  He spills coffee all over his napkin.  She jumps up from table.  Comes 
around.  Grabs him by hair.  Pounds his face on the table. Happens to push it 
in the creamed potatoes.

2. -- Closeup of Bill with face smeared.  Sad expression.
 
3. -- Dining-room.   Bill grabs for napkin to clean face.  Gets table cloth 
instead.  Upsets things. She boxes his ears.  Knocks him off chair. Flounces 
out.  Bill picks himself up slowly. 
 
4. -- Back door. Pail on bench beside door.  Myra comes out with tin basin.  
Fills basin, bounces into house again.

5. -- Dining-room.  Myra comes in.  Carries basin, grabs Bill by hair.  Bumps 
him down into seat. Washes his face.  Scrubs vigorously.  Bill struggles.   
Upsets basin over Myra, she gets sore, pounds him over head with basin, chases 
him out. 

6. -- Back door.  Bill comes out.  Very mournful. Filled with self-pity.  Sits 
on bench.  Gets too far out.  Bench goes down with him.  Water bucket slides 
down and upsets on him.  Myra comes to door.  Sees.  Pounds him with broom, 
chases him out.

7. -- Yard. Clothesline up. Bill comes in. Doesn't look where he is going.  
Line catches him.  He tumbles.  Gets idea.  Takes line down.  One end about 
neck.  Myra dashes in.  Basket of clothes.  Grabs line.  Pulls Bill over, 
making him put line up.  Tells him to hang clothes.  Bill starts.  She exits.

8. -- Back door.  Myra comes in.  Turns to look back.  Content that Bill is 
busy, enters house. 

9. -- Yard.  Bill with mouth full of clothes pins hanging up clothes.  Gets 
tangled in a sheet. Falls.  Myra runs in.  Picks him up.  Looks at sheet.   
Sore.  "He isn't even able to hang out clothes.  Get out there."  Bill exits.  
Myra starts to hang up clothes.

10. -- Back door.  Bill comes in. Goes to sit down. Remembers.  Nix on a 
second fall  Goes into house.

11. -- Dining-room.  Bill enters. Goes to sideboard. Takes out big revolver.  
Looks at it affectionately. Holds to head. Scared. Shakes head. Starts again.  
Undecided.
 
12. -- Back door.   Myra comes in with empty clothes basket.  Looks inside.  
Rushes into house. 

13. -- Dining room. Bill still looking at gun. Myra rushes in.  Throws clothes 
basket over his head.  Bill drops.  She picks him up.  Takes gun from him 
indignantly. 

Cut in:
 
	"DO YOU WANT TO MUSS THE PLACE ALL UP!" 

Back to scene.
   
The suggestion dampens Bill's spirits.  He weeps profusely on Myra's 
shoulders.  She moves away.  He falls forward.  She exits.  He gets up. Picks 
up carving knife.  Looks at it.
 
14. -- Back door.  Myra comes out.  Wants water. Bill sidles past. She catches 
him.  He tries to hide knife.  She suspects.  Searches.  Sees it.  Sore.  

Cut in:
            
	"MY BEST KNIFE" 

Back to scene.

She jabs at him.  He dodges.  Starts out.  She lands a kick on him.

15. -- Street by Standard Oil.  Car runs past and down to tanks. Bill wanders 
down.
 
16. -- Gas tank.  Car getting gas. Driver pays attendant.  Backs away.  
Narrowly avoids running Bill down.  Bill speaks to attendant.  Wants some gas.  
Attendant exits.

17. -- Back door. Myra comes out. Calls Bill. No response. Sore. Enters house.

18. -- Back to 16.  Gallon can filled.  Bill pays.  Exits.
 
19. -- Street as in 15.  Bill comes from yard.  Starts to drink.  Cop enters.  
Takes can.  Smells. Moves him on.  Bill meanders away toward his house. 

20. -- Another part of yard.  Bill enters.  Unscrews lid of can.  Starts to 
drink.

21. -- Back door.  Myra comes to door.  Looks. Calls.  Starts to run.
 
22. -- Yard.  Bill finishing the can.  Myra runs in. Grabs can from him. Turns 
it upside down.  None left.  Smells.  Speaks.
 
23. -- Back door. Myra comes in with can.  Turns and looks.  Yells.

24. -- Closeup of yard.  Bill lighting matches and blowing on them.

25. -- Back door.  Myra watching trick, bench, etc., fall as she falls, 
presumably blown back by force of explosion.
 
26. -- Yard.  Set off smoke bomb and start to turn on the smoke.  Just a 
flash.
 
27. -- Back door.  Myra picks herself up.  One or two people run in. All run 
out of scene. 

28. -- Yard 11.  Myra and others run in search. One finds a shoe.  Another a 
hat.  They hand to Myra. She has hysterics.  Two men hold her, one on either 
side.  Seek to console her.  Myra speaks. 

Cut in:
 
	"AND HE CARRIED NO FIRE INSURANCE, EITHER"
 
Back to scene.
 
The men look at each other.  That's the limit. They let her drop to the 
ground. They're through. Myra sits on ground and sobs as picture out.


 
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Screenplay by Epes W. Sargent, 
"author of numberless comedies 
produced by the majority of the 
film companies." 

This script was "accepted and 
produced", possibly under a 
different title in 1916 or '17.