Volume II: Filmography

THE CYCLE OF HATRED

April 6, 1915 (Tuesday)

Length: 2 reels (2,002 feet)

Character: Drama

Cast: Miss Conroy (Olive Tracy), Helen Badgley (Helen, her child), Florence LaBadie (Persis King), Morris Foster (Dr. Morrison), Carey L. Hastings (the ayah [Hindu nurse] in the Tracys' apartment), May Dunne, Doris Farrington, Harris Gordon

SYNOPSIS, Reel Life, March 27, 1915:

"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."

REVIEW, The Moving Picture World, April 10, 1915:

"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."

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