Volume II: Filmography

BREAD UPON THE WATERS

Production still with Muriel Ostriche and Boyde Marchall. Courtesy Robert Birchard. (F-651)

(Princess)

November 14, 1913 (Friday)

Length: 1 reel

Character: Drama

Director: Carl Louis Gregory

Scenario: Lloyd F. Lonergan

Cameraman: Carl Louis Gregory

Cast: Boyd Marshall (the lover), Muriel Ostriche (Muriel, his second sweetheart), Fannie [or Fanna] Gregory (Fanna, his first sweetheart)

Note: The Motion Picture Magazine, December 1914, stated that Arthur Ashley appeared in this film in the role of Harmon. This is an incorrect reference, for Ashley did not join Thanhouser until a year after this film was released.

ADVERTISEMENT, Reel Life, November 8, 1913:

"Boyd Marshall, the new Princess leading man, is seen at his best in this. As the perplexed lover who is not certain which girl he should turn to, Marshall does some neat, natural acting. You find yourself uncertain, with him! Muriel Ostriche takes the part of the farmer girl who finally wins Marshall. You do not blame the man for turning to her! The story, as the reader has already grasped, is a love one, and of unusual pathos and appeal. It will be popular with every class of audience."

SYNOPSIS, Reel Life, November 8, 1913:

"This delightful play holds the interest - as it is a question whether the young man will choose the girl who is worthy of him. Also, Muriel's self-sacrifice and unselfish sympathy with Jack in his troubles with the first girl make us especially anxious that her love shall be recognized and fulfilled. The young civil engineer is obliged to leave town when his sweetheart quarrels with him - he is so broken up over the affair. He had always adored Fanna, and they were engaged - when he happened to see her taking a very affectionate goodnight of another fellow. Even then he would have forgiven her - but she, in a fit of anger, handed him back his ring - and a call to another town on a new job proved a welcome relief to Jack. There, of course, he meets the second girl - who unselfishly does her best to reconcile Fanna and Jack. He is on the point of going back to her - when he finds that he cannot bring himself to leave Muriel. He lets the train go, and hurries back to find his real sweetheart - and the play ends exactly as we have hoped all along."

REVIEW, The Moving Picture World, November 29, 1913:

"A pleasing film story in which a broken-hearted young man goes away to forget his first sweetheart. Later he falls in love with the landlady's pretty daughter, although he does not realize it for the time being. But when the first sweetheart sends for him, he then learns that his heart belongs to the second. Boyd Marshall and Muriel Ostriche make a very pleasing couple in this."

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