The story
“The incompatibility of a true artist and a social butterfly lead to complications which result in sorrow and death and to situations which fill this photoplay with heart throbs from start to finish. After years of unhappiness for all concerned a mere stroke of fortune brings to a happy close a story of mistakes and their resultant heartaches. A wealthy violinist falls in love with a society girl. Seven years after their marriage a daughter is born, and at the age of four she is an apt pupil in her father’s art. The wife refuses to accompany the violinist on a tour and during his absence runs away with a banker, taking her daughter with her. Broken-hearted, the violinist goes to America to search for his wife and child. He fails to find them, loses interest in his playing, and years later starts a small music store. His wife, cruelly treated by the banker, realizes her mistake and dies broken-hearted, leaving her child in the banker’s care. The banker, having lost heavily in the stock market, marries a rich widow. He continues to lose and dies suddenly as the result of worry. His widow insists that the girl marry a wealthy roué, but she falls in love with a young man whom she met while playing at a school musicale. As the banker’s widow insists she marry the roué she decides to sell her violins and leave. She takes them to the store kept by her father and he recognizes one which he gave to her when a child. Identification follows, the girl marries the man she loves and father and daughter are once more together after years of separation.”
Summary from Reel Life · 11 April 1914
