We feel that the theme is capable of infinite variation. Should one sink to low comedy there is always the fair bather and the rude tramp who purloins her clothes, or again the movable or travelling bathtub with ensuing complications. In the realm of melodrama one's imagination calls up at once the picture of a lovely girl imprisoned in her bath. The water higher and higher, The villain has tampered with the plug. There is no outlet. The tub overflows, The room is flooded, chairs and cabinets float about. Poised precariously on the rim of the tub the heroine faces drowning. Just as she is about to sink for the third time. the hero, a stalwart plumber, adjusts the difficulties with the pipes and rescues the (of course discreetly bath-robed) heroine just in time.
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