A major abdominal operation, 19 seconds.
Establishing identity of long-lost heir, 6 seconds.
Buy your hats at O'Grady's—they're different, 2 minutes.
Getting Central on the telephone, instantaneous.
Central gives the right connection, 2 seconds. (Incidentally it may be remarked that the film drama can never hope to reproduce the most powerful comic device of the legitimate stage. This consists in saying to Central, "Yes, I want two-four-six-thr-r-re-e," the most notable advance in dramatic art since the invention of the inflated bladder.)
Restoration of lost memory and discovery of hiding-place of lost documents, 10 seconds.
Orator sways hostile audience, 15 seconds.
Detailed plan for robbing Metropolitan Museum formulated by six conspirators, 15 seconds.
Twenty years pass, 2 seconds.