Volume II: Filmography

HER TWO JEWELS

July 4, 1913 (Friday)

Length: 1 reel (1,000 feet)

Character: Drama

Cast: Mignon Anderson (the girl from the dress cleaner's), Marie Eline (the little Italian boy), Mrs. Lawrence Marston (the mother)

SYNOPSIS, The Moving Picture World, July 5, 1913:

"The wealthy widow lived a selfish life, with little regard or consideration for anybody except her son. He was her idol and she was blind to all his faults. The young man gave his mother a handsome jeweled pin, and the woman proudly wore it on her breast. But that very day an ink well on her desk upset and her handsome gown was stained. The girl from the dress cleaners arrived to take the dress away, and the owner, who had now changed to another gown, took the soiled dress to the window, where she showed the stains to the messenger. After the girl had gone the woman discovered that the pin had disappeared, and a careful search revealed no trace of it in her room. She decided, although she did not know positively, that the girl must have taken it. The pin was not in the gown when it reached the shop, the girl was accused of theft by the woman, and was sent to prison. A short time later it was proven that the pin fell from the window when the widow was showing the gown to the girl, and was found by a little Italian boy. The girl, her innocence established, was released from prison, but the woman made no effort to atone for her error.

"A few years later the woman received a shock when her son informed her that he was going to marry a girl for whom he cared very much, although he admitted that she was a manicurist. The mother argued with him, but could not change his mind, so she decided to call on the manicurist herself and bribe her to renounce her son. But, to her surprise and consternation, the manicurist proved to be the little cleaner girl whom she had so grievously wronged. The manicurist was no longer as light hearted as she had been in the days gone by, and she scornfully told the mother that she could not buy her off, and she intended to marry her son. The woman pleaded, but found no mercy in the girl whom she had given none. The manicurist married the son, and it is generally conceded by those who knew him in the past, that she made a man of him. The widow sees very little of her son and lives alone, revengeful and unforgiving."

REVIEW, The Morning Telegraph, July 6, 1913:

"There is no fault to be found with the players in this production, all of whom handle their respective roles with intelligence. Mignon Anderson in the role of the cleaner's assistant is very pleasing, and Marie Eline, the Thanhouser Kid, as the boy who picks up the jewels is attractive, as usual. The story has a far fetched situation, when the policeman happens by accident upon the family of the little boy who picked up the brooch on the street. The woman to whom the brooch has been given by her son as a birthday gift, spills ink on her dress, and when the cleaner's assistant comes for the dress to clean it the mother herself shakes the dress out of the window, and in so doing drops the gift to the pavement. The girl is arrested, and not until the accidental discovery by the policeman of the whereabouts of the jewels is she released from the embarrassing situation."

REVIEW, The New York Dramatic Mirror, July 9, 1913:

"The basic situation of this photoplay strongly suggests one of the Broadway successes. Accused of a crime of which she is innocent, a shop girl is sent to prison for six months. When she comes out she turns her hand to manicuring, and through this medium she meets the son of the rich widow who sent her to prison. In revenge the girl marries the boy, telling the mother that before she was falsely accused of stealing a jewel, but now she has stolen her son, the greatest jewel the mother has. The author has handled his materials fairly well up to the final, but the picture closes, leaving the spectator with the feeling that something is missing, that the story is incomplete. The staging and acting are creditable."

REVIEW, The Moving Picture World, July 12, 1913:

"The simply, natural development of this picture gets hold of one's interest. The manner in which the shop girl becomes falsely suspected of stealing the brooch is well shown. Later, she marries the woman's son and this procures her revenge. Not strong, but entertaining."

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July 6, 1913 (Sunday)

No release because of three-reel release of July 1, 1913.

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