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A New Beginning
(1912) United States of America
B&W : One reel
Directed by Lloyd B. Carleton
Cast: John Halliday [Calvert Cole, the young husband], Ormi Hawley [Mildred Cole, the young wife], Charles Arthur [the bookkeeper], Mabel Wright [the sick man’s wife]
Lubin Manufacturing Company production; distributed by The General Film Company, Incorporated. / Produced by Siegmund Lubin. Released 22 April 1912. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Drama: Romance.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? Calvert and Mildred Cole love each other, but have lived five years the wrong way. He leaves for his office with no word of goodbye, leaving his wife ill and blue. The bookkeeper comes in late and seems worried. Mr. Cole tells him to take the books home in the evening and balance them. Mr. Cole goes home for dinner and dines alone, his wife being out. Just as he leaves she returns. A messenger brings her a note, which reads, “My dear Mrs. Cole: Will you go to No. ____ 8th St. and take some fruit, etc., for a charity patient of mine. I am really too ill to go. Would thank you so much. Yours, etc.” She goes, and finds a young couple, the husband sick and the wife out at work. The wife returns and is very tender to her husband. She shows Mrs. Cole some very tiny garments and it seems to awaken something long dead in her. She goes home and dresses for a ball and leaves. The bookkeeper goes home without the books, and Mr. Cole decides to take them to him. He finds the bookkeeper’s little girl very sick, and he also finds patience, love and tenderness there. He leaves the books and goes home. His wife is out and he goes to the club. He becomes restless there, and returns home, and sits before the open fireplace and goes to sleep. Mrs. Cole does not enjoy herself as much as in the past. She also returns home, finds him asleep, leans over after much hesitation, and kisses him. In doing so, she drops her bouquet, and he waking later, finds it. Coming back into the room, she sees him press it to his lips. She kneels by his side and he hugs her.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 2 June 2024.
References: Pratt-Spellbound p. ? : Website-IMDb.
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