Volume II: Filmography

 

WHEN SORROW FADES

 

March 29, 1914 (Sunday)

Length: 1 reel (1,014 feet)

Character: Drama

Scenario: John W. Kellette

Cast: Mignon Anderson (Maud Kensington, a charity worker), Eric Jewett (Joe, her sweetheart), Harry Benham (Jim, an editor, in love with Maud), Lila Chester, Edward Walton (Mr. Burr, an aged pauper), Fan Bourke (Mrs. Burr, his wife)

Note: This film was erroneously titled as Sorrow Fades in several (but not all) schedules in The Moving Picture World, March 28 and April 4, 1914, for example.

 

ADVERTISEMENT, Reel Life, March 28, 1914:

"When Sorrow Fades is a story of high life and slums that features a little settlement worker, played by Mignon Anderson. There is a regular beauty array in this picture - Mignon, Fan Bourke and Lila Hayward Chester, the New York Times' Prettiest Girl. Handsome Harry Benham in the leading male role, contributes more looks, and Eric Jewett and Ed Walton are in his support."

 

SYNOPSIS, Reel Life, March 28, 1914:

"Maud Kensington is interested in settlement and charitable work, an enthusiasm which is not shared by Joe, her sweetheart. When Joe does not display any inclination to help financially an old couple whose pathetic case she has called to his attention, Maud sends a letter of appeal to a daily newspaper. The letter falls into the hand of the managing editor, who, although he receives numerous requests of the same sort, is prompted to answer the appeal in person. He meets Maud, and his kindly bearing enkindles her regard. Together they visit the aged couple, and Jim stacks up a pile of cordwood in the wretched shack, and goes back to his office to cancel his order of an automobile, so that he can devote the money to purchasing some of the comforts of life for the destitute couple. While Jim and Maud are making a second visit to the shack, Joe drives up in his car. The ill-feeling which has been none too well concealed between the two men results in a personal encounter. Jim is getting the worst of the fight when Maud enters. She inspires Jim to greater efforts, however, and Joe lines up on the receiving end of a right hook, which puts him temporarily hors du combat. Maud returns her former sweetheart's ring and - but even a poor guesser can surmise what happened after that."

 

REVIEW, The Morning Telegraph, April 5, 1914:

"It doesn't take a clairvoyant to tell that when Maud Kensington, a settlement worker, learns that her sweetheart does not share her desire to help every destitute couple she meets, and then finds a man who will cancel his order for an automobile in order to provide them with the necessities of life, somebody is going to return a ring and somebody else is going to buy one. Mignon Anderson plays the girl, and therefore it is easy to understand the pitched battle that takes place between the two men to sympathize with the loser and to congratulate the winner."

 

REVIEW, The Moving Picture World, April 11, 1914:

"A young lady, whose heart goes out in sympathy with an old couple who are devoid of the necessities of life, pleads with her fiancé to aid her in interesting a newspaper in their behalf. He refuses, and she takes the matter into her own hands. The newspaper takes the matter up with her and the editor readily. The picture is clean, interesting and faithfully done in all respects."

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