Mrs. Black Is Back ratings (Movie, 1914)

Mrs. Black, formerly a plump and good-natured widow, tells Professor Black, her newly-made husband, whom she adores and fears, that she is twenty-nine, instead of thirty-six, her real age, thus neatly knocking off seven years from the sum total. To further convince him of her youth, she tells him also that her son, John, whom he has never seen, is aged ten, when "Little Johnny" is in reality a husky young fellow of seventeen, in school in England. He is fully six feet tall, broad shouldered, and quite up to date, even to his Irish valet, Larry McManus. Not being able to tell the Professor this, Mrs. Black invents a mythical "Aunt Prue," living in New England, with whom Johnny is supposed to be staying. The professor has to curb his impatience to see his new son, and meanwhile vents his fondness in buying toys for "the child." So does the Professor's class of gushing young girls, who look forward with equal eagerness to seeing "Professor's Little Johnny." In order to regain the ...