The story
“In Little Bobby, by Will H. Stevens, a Thanhouser release in the Mutual program, the part of this small masculine six-year-old runaway is played by Helen Badgley, the Thanhouser Kidlet. His father and mother, interested in buying a home, talk the matter over before him. They enlist his sympathy and he leaves home to seek work. He finds no work, but a jewel box, for which he receives $2,000 reward. This builds the home. Harris Gordon and Ethyle Cooke play Bobby’s father and mother.”
Summary from The Morning Telegraph · 21 February 1915
Another synopsis, from The Moving Picture World · 27 March 19151 min
“Bob, a little boy of six years of age, lives with his father, a cobbler, who wants to buy a home. Bob hears his father’s plans and is interested; his love for him is so great that he decides to set aside his toys and help his father buy a home. He tires of his blocks, and he decides to go out and earn money. He leaves his sister, who is deeply interested in her book, and wanders away. He meets with many incidents, and in the course of his wanderings finds a valuable case of jewels for which there has been offered a reward of $2,000. His parents, returning, find him gone, and start a search for him. In the evening they discover him on the main street marching with the flag bearer of the Salvation Army, happy in his innocence. The money he receives for the finding of the jewels buys the cottage which was the choice of his father and mother.”
