This is another of those movies made by Klaw & Erlanger for Biograph during its final days. Kate Toncray (who plays Mary) has been waiting for decades for her boyfriend, Dell Henderson, who has gone off to the City -- San Francisco, to judge from the front-projected backdrop in the later scenes. When nephew Reggie Morris heads off to the city for college, he soon gets kicked out for having a bottle on campus, moves into a hotel where he proposes to Florence Lee, and abandons her. Kate disinherits him, but when Florence shows up, Kate heads off to the big bad city in pursuit of her nephew. She finds him and his college buddies throwing a party for Gertrude Bambrick, the movies ingenue. They decide to make Kate the guest of honor, dress her in Paris fashions and get her drunk. By golly, the big town ain't so bad!
It's based on the stage hit by Anne Warner (56 performances in 1907), but at 30 minutes, not only are many of the plot points that must have been resolved, lost, but there's a lot of talk that calls for titles that aren't there. The performances under the direction of Eddie Dillon are capable, but a bit old-fashioned.
It's another example of the K&E Biographs that purported to offer a famous show to the movie audiences, but again it required the audience to know the show to understand what is going on.
It was remade by Erle Kenton for Demille in 1927, with the show's original Aunt Mary, May Robson. I'd like to see that, but that version is among the missing.
It's based on the stage hit by Anne Warner (56 performances in 1907), but at 30 minutes, not only are many of the plot points that must have been resolved, lost, but there's a lot of talk that calls for titles that aren't there. The performances under the direction of Eddie Dillon are capable, but a bit old-fashioned.
It's another example of the K&E Biographs that purported to offer a famous show to the movie audiences, but again it required the audience to know the show to understand what is going on.
It was remade by Erle Kenton for Demille in 1927, with the show's original Aunt Mary, May Robson. I'd like to see that, but that version is among the missing.
