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The Test
(1911) United States of America
B&W : One reel
Directed by Harry Solter
Cast: Florence Lawrence [Miss Gillman], Albert McGovern [Miss Gillman’s sweetheart], Harry Myers [Harry Thorne, the rival], Julia Stuart [Miss Gillman’s mother]
Lubin Manufacturing Company production; distributed by The General Film Company, Incorporated. / Produced by Siegmund Lubin. / Released 20 February 1911. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Stuart film debut.
Drama.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? Flo was an assistant in a fashionable library, receiving a small salary which she devoted to the support of herself and her mother and to small charities. She had two devoted admirers, Harry and Dick whom she had met at the library. Neither of them knew where she lived as she was afraid they might despise her humble home. One day, her mother came to the library with the aged father of one of Flo’s charity charges, an invalid girl. The girl was in need of medicine and as Flo's mother had no money, she had brought the man to the library. Flo went to ask in advance from the librarian. As she was returning, she saw Dick, who took the old people for beggars, ordering them from the place. Flo immediately came to their rescue and informed Dick that one of the supposed beggars was her own mother. As the two old folks were leaving the library, Harry, seeing that they were in great trouble, offered his assistance. He sent a doctor to the invalid girl and in other ways did all he could for Flo's charges. When Flo discovered what Harry had done, she changed her attitude toward him and allowed him to call at her home. She soon found that her humble surroundings had no effect whatever on his admiration and love for her. They soon became engaged. Harry insisted that she resign from the library and he had the pleasure of showing her resignation and announcing their engagement to Dick when that young man called to apologize to Flo for his words to her mother.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 7 October 2023.
References: Website-IMDb.
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