Volume II: Filmography

FASHION AND THE SIMPLE LIFE

April 25, 1915 (Sunday)

Length: 1 reel

Character: Comedy-drama

Cast: Ernest Warde, Carey L. Hastings, Frank Farrington, Ethyle Cooke, Arthur Bauer

SYNOPSIS, Reel Life, April 10, 1915:

"Nell loses her sylphlike figure - and with it her job as a model in a New York establishment. A certain salesman, Ned Warren, has paid her many attentions, but believing that he is in love with her fashionable appearance only, she has repeatedly rejected him. Now she tells him that she is going to Florida. She takes a train southward and gets off at a small country town, where she has already engaged a boarding place. Here, free from worry about her figure and her position, she lives on her savings and enjoys life. The salesman, needing a rest, also starts for Florida. He is sidetracked in the village where Nell is staying. The model fears that her very unfashionable appearance will disillusion her former suitor, but great is her relief to discover that Ned cares for comfort and naturalness far more than for style. They marry, buy a farm, and settle down to live the simple life together."

REVIEW, The Moving Picture World, May 1, 1915:

"The story of a lady model and a salesman who dislike their business and yearn for the simple life. The theme in this is better than the handling, but it is fairly interesting as it stands."

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