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John Lawson, Jr. has taken over the family business due to the illness of his father, and he has suffered a nervous breakdown. His father,regaining health, suggests the son take a rest at a summer hotel. John bids adieu to his fiancee, only to become smitten by Mary, a pretty hotel waitress. He promises to marry her. John is called home urgently when his father's health declines; his father dies. John forgets the waitress until a letter arrives from her. John, having become a respectable businessman, replies to her that he will not marry her. Mary visits his home during a "doll party," encountering John's first fiancee and John, both of whom treat her badly. Learning that John is to be married, Mary takes her baby to the site of the wedding; the fiancee and her mother leave. John's false pride evaporates, and he dutifully and joyfully marries Mary.
J151150 U.S. Copyright Office
Copyright: Biograph Co.; 25Jan1911; J151150.
Charles H. West (John Lawson, Jr.), Dorothy Bernard (Mary, a waitress), Francis J. Grandon (Doctor), Claire McDowell, Linda Arvidson, Lottie Pickford, Donald Crisp (valet), Arthur Johnson, Dorothy West, Stephanie Longfellow (fiancee), Grace Henderson (mother), Adolph Lestina (Minister), Edward Dillon, J. Jiquel Lanoe, Kate Toncray, Elmer Booth, Alfred Paget, Jack Pickford, John T. Dillon, Frank Evans, Edwin August, Marion Sunshine, Guy Hedlund.
Cinematography, Billy Bitzer.
Incomplete: 35 mm. print and neg: part of picture and end title lacking.
Photographed in the Biograph studio, New York City, Dec. 3-6, 1910.
Parts of summary taken from Biograph bulletins, 1908-1912, p. 267.
Biograph production no. 3780.
Paper print shelf number (LC 2394) was changed when the paper prints were re-housed.
Sources used: Copyright catalog, motion pictures, 1894-1912; Stewart, J., Biograph bulletins, 1908-1912, p. 267; Moving picture world, v. 8, no. 1, p. 202; Moving picture news, v. 4, no. 4, p. 24; American film index, 1908-1915; Graham, C., D.W. Griffith and the Biograph Company, p. 103; Niver's Early motion pictures, p. 99; Internet movie database WWW site, viewed December 7, 2015.
Early motion pictures : the Paper Print Collection in the Library of Congress / by Kemp R. Niver. Library of Congress. 1985.

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