- In this rambunctious comedy, desperately job-needy Billie becomes "Bridget" to answer a "female wanted" ad for a housekeeper. Unfortunately, s/he is all thumbs, wreaking household havoc in no time. Popular British comedian Billie Reeves rose to fame in the company of music hall impresario Fred Karno (which was also the training ground for Charlie Chaplin and Stan Laurel). Director Arthur Hotaling was an American vaudevillian-turned-highly-prolific-director of short films in the 1910s, mostly for Florida-based Lubin Manufacturing Company. Unfortunately, the year MAID was produced would prove to be the company's last. A disastrous fire and other woes forced it into bankruptcy. - Dennis Harvey
- Billy, czar, king, emperor and whatnot of the hobo clan, is stranded high and dry far from the sea of finance. A bundle dropped from a fast speeding laundry wagon fills him with hope as he pounces upon it, but sadness overawes him when he opens it, for it contains naught but an abundance of women's clothes and lingerie. Then it is that his ever eager eye lights upon a "want ad" in the morning paper, and he decides that with the new-found outfit he can be the maid required. Accordingly he is soon arrayed in the feminine garb and applies for the position at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Dovey. a newly married pair. As things will sometimes happen, Billy is hired and begins his duties at once. Despite the fact that he musses up the bric-a-brac a bit, nails the sheets to the bed, sets fire to the waste paper basket with a cigarette but extinguishes it with the parlor aquarium of goldfish, Mrs. Dovey assures her husband on his return home that she has secured a treasure, however little Mr. Dovey may agree with her. Billie has become Bridget now, and ilea to entertain Major and Mrs. Dix at dinner. Bridget is advised and "she" admits "she" cannot only handle the cooking wonderfully but horribly as well. The cocktails and wine tempt "Bridget" more than a little, and he spills soup over the Major's shirt front. Many other uncomfortable little pastimes are indulged in by "Bridget." The Major and his wife leave in a rage and Hubby Dovey decides he will tie the can on "Bridget" without delay, but in the kitchen he finds "her" sharpening a pair of carving knives and he tiptoes away from the irate one. At midnight, with the household wrapped in slumber, a burglar sneaks into the house, "Bridget" comes out of slumber long enough to save the "scared to death Dovey and wife" and gives chase to the intruder, upstairs and down to the street and straight to the arms of a waiting policeman who carts them both back to the Dovey mansion. Here it is discovered that "Bridget" is half male attire and half female attire and the secret is out. Mrs. Dovey and friend husband agree that Billy would be the proper caper as the gardener where he is installed at easy labor, and a real rook is secured that the Dovey's might eat and Billy may have one to whom he can tell the love with which his heart overflows.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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