Flat Harmony

• 1917
• Other, Comedy

Peter determines to give his wife a birthday present, a bungalow, as she is tired of flat life. But the landlord will not break their lease. Peter meets a friend who tells him he has been put out of his apartment for making too much noise. Peter gets an idea. He induces his wife to go to her mother for a few days. Then he invites Foley, who is a manager of vaudeville acts and who has no place to rehearse a song and dance number, to use his flat. They dance till the ceiling comes down on the landlord's head, and he tears up the lease. Peter leaves, but the police, summoned by the landlord, arrest Foley as Peter, and the story gets into the papers. Mrs. Duffer reads it, and thinks she now knows why Peter urged her to leave home. She returns and finds the chorus girls installed. Foley has broken out of prison, and comes to the flat. The police appear and re-arrest him. Thus Mrs. Duffer learns the truth, and harmony is restored.