Volume II: Filmography

WHERE PATHS DIVERGE

a.k.a. WHERE PATHS DIVERGED

a.k.a. WHEN PATHS DIVERGED

(Princess)

February 6, 1914 (Friday)

Length: 1 reel (992 feet)

Character: Drama

Director: Carl Louis Gregory

Assistant director: M. Perry Horton

Scenario: John William Kellette

Cameraman: Carl Louis Gregory

Cast: Muriel Ostriche (Muriel, a young teacher and expectant mother), Boyd Marshall (Walters, a doctor, Muriel's new lover), Eddie Ford (Billy, a college boy), Catherine Webb (Mrs. Greg, Billy's mother), Morgan Jones (Mr. Greg, Billy's father)

SYNOPSIS, Reel Life, January 31, 1914:

"Billy married Muriel secretly. His mother - though she boards the pretty young schoolteacher to help make both ends meet - has a great opinion of social caste and her own family, and considers Muriel her son's inferior. The young people, accordingly, have not the courage to face her opposition. Muriel secretly works on garments for the child she is expecting - and Mrs. Greg discovers the sewing, and the marriage certificate. She destroys the certificate and drives Muriel from the house. The young teacher loses her position, and finds employment with a doctor named Walters. He loves her and eventually proposes marriage. She can give him no satisfactory explanation of her refusal. Soon after, she asks a month's vacation - ostensibly to visit her mother - but goes to a hospital, where her child is born dead. Returning to Walter's office, he again begs her to marry him. The girl is heart-broken - when she receives a letter from Billy, and it is not long before they are reunited and happy."

REVIEW, The Moving Picture World, February 21, 1914:

"Opening with prettily-acted love scenes and a hasty marriage which the stork makes impossible to conceal, this picture has a happily romantic though not very convincing ending. The pretty leading lady acts well in the romantic scenes, but shows lack of experience in tragedy. It has the appeal of overdrawn melodramas and is a fair offering."

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