An interesting parody on Diabolo. The subject opens with a dining room scene, the entire family, parents and two children, seated at the table and partaking of that noon-day meal. Following... See full summary
Crazed by a Fad (1907) Online
An interesting parody on Diabolo. The subject opens with a dining room scene, the entire family, parents and two children, seated at the table and partaking of that noon-day meal. Following the announcement of a visitor, we see the aunt enter and, endowed with a philanthropic spirit, she has brought for the amusement of the children the game of Diabolo. The father endeavors to demonstrate to the children the use of the top and breaks the lamp shade. Later we see him in the sleeping room, where, in the course of time, everything possible to break is demolished. Filled with regret at the havoc here wrought, the parent moves on to the dining room, where mother and children are gathered at the table eating supper with a feeling akin to fright. They immediately leave the room and stand at the doorway looking on with bated breath. Shortly the various decorations and bric-a-brac, as also china, is in ruins on the floor, and driven to desperation by the devastation caused by the frenzied ...