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The Cycle of Hatred

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The story

“Olive Tracy, a young widow, becomes insanely jealous when the engagement of Dr. Morrison to Persis King is announced. She saturates some flowers with a poisonous prescription which she has obtained from the doctor on a pretense of illness, and fastening Dr. Morrison’s card to the bouquet, has it taken to Miss King. Little Helen, Mrs. Tracy’s daughter, is very devoted to the woman whom her mother hates. She happens to be in Miss King’s apartment when the roses arrive and is the first one to smell them. A few minutes later she sinks back in a chair unconscious. Persis, in alarm, summons the child’s mother. Realizing what she has done, Mrs. Tracy, in an agony of remorse, confesses. Dr. Morrison saves the child’s life—and the mother is cured of her jealous disposition.”

Summary from Reel Life · 27 March 1915

What the papers said

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“A two-reel offering with Flo LaBadie and Morris Foster in the cast. A widow woman, jealous of the girl’s hold on the young physician, poisons some flowers. Her own child gets the flowers and inhales the poisonous odor. The doctor is called but cannot find an antidote; this is later furnished by the Hindu maid. The motive in this is …

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“A two-reel offering with Flo LaBadie and Morris Foster in the cast. A widow woman, jealous of the girl’s hold on the young physician, poisons some flowers. Her own child gets the flowers and inhales the poisonous odor. The doctor is called but cannot find an antidote; this is later furnished by the Hindu maid. The motive in this is not particularly strong. Its chief strength is in showing the manner in which jealousy sometimes works upon people in love. It makes on the whole an offering of about average merit.”

The Moving Picture World · 10 April 1915

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Cast and crew

Cast
Carey L. Hastings as the ayah [Hindu nurse] in the Tracys’ apartment
Doris Farrington
Florence La Badie as Persis King
Harris Gordon
Helen Badgley as Helen, her child
May Dunne
Miss Conroy as Olive Tracy
J. Morris Foster as Dr. Morrison

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More about this film

From Volume II: Filmography of Q. David Bowers’ Thanhouser Films: An Encyclopedia and History, reproduced with permission and unchanged. Read the history of 1915 →

Cite as: Bowers, Q. David. Thanhouser Films: An Encyclopedia and History, “The Cycle of Hatred”. thanhouser.org/films/the-cycle-of-hatred/

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