A Problem in Reduction

  • Genre: Comedy
  • Run time: 20 min
  • Premiere: 1912. February 3.

Mrs. Smartly thinks she is too fleshy and decides to take a course of treatment. She consults her maid, who recommends a beauty doctor, and the doctor in return recommends a course of exercises and appliances. She follows it regularly, but she still grows fatter and fatter until, disgusted, she gives up these fads and fancies and goes back to a normal state

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Helen Gardner

Mrs. Smartly - a Woman Who Wants to Reduce

Rolinda Bainbridge

A Beautician

Lawrence Grattan

Mr. Smartly - the Woman's Husband