DOCTOR FOSTER
1 Mountain scenery in Gloucestershire. Rain falls. Curtain falls.
2 Foster, the medical student, in his laboratory, cultivating bacteria, surrounded by stills, alembics, crucibles, etc. His retorts uncourteous when bitten by tame streptococcus. (Inset, his pet blue-eyed staphylococcus begging for gelatine.)
3 Secretary of State for War arrives with his Staff. Foster seizes the staff, which forthwith blossoms. He is invited to accept a Commission. He demands 12½ per cent.
4 Selection Committee at War Office doubt Foster’s skill. He produces pocket-knife and amputates Serjeant-Major’s leg. He amputates both his own arms. He is accepted, and gazetted Major-General.
5 Proceeding to Gloucester in charge of Ambulance Column, he is caught in above-mentioned rain. He steps out of his Daimler into a puddle. He sinks to the waist. He is hauled out with improvised crane. He resolves not to revisit Gloucester.
6 Being quite armless, he is allowed to indict District Council for illegal detention.
7 Judge remarks that “he who comes into Equity must come with clean hands.” As General Foster has no hands, and as they would be dirty if he had, case is dismissed, and he is struck off the Rolls-Royce.