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Simple Charity (1910)
Short | 17 min | Drama, Short

Simple Charity (1910)

Short | 17 min | Drama, Short

In an East Side tenement there lived an old couple. The husband was a cigar maker, but becoming feeble from age, he is discharged. Back to his cheerless home he comes, where his faithful wife tries to buoy up his spirits. The old man ...See moreIn an East Side tenement there lived an old couple. The husband was a cigar maker, but becoming feeble from age, he is discharged. Back to his cheerless home he comes, where his faithful wife tries to buoy up his spirits. The old man realizes however, that he has lived out his usefulness and appreciates the reality of a future of absolute want, short though it may be. The awful aspect quite undoes him, and he is taken seriously ill. It is indeed a house of sorrow. No money with which to buy food or medicine, the poor couple resort to pawnshops to raise a little money on their household effects, they both being too proud to ask aid from anyone, and there were those in the house who would have been glad to do it. There is a young settlement doctor who administers to the wants of the infirm, but he is kept in ignorance of this case, so the old man goes unattended. A pretty little slavey, who works about the house is the first one to know of the poor couple's sad plight. She in her innocent way has fallen desperately in love with the young doctor, who though meeting her often as he comes and goes, is quite unaware of the interest he has excited. The sincere girl decks herself out in her best dress hoping to fascinate him, but sad to relate, he doesn't notice it. While thus attired she hears the sorrowing of the poor woman, and is moved to a determination to help, but how. She has nothing to spare herself. An idea! And though it hurts her she takes to the pawnshop this one best dress and raises fifty cents on it which she forces the poor woman to take. This is real charity. At length, when her husband is sinking slowly, the poor woman rushes to the City Charity Society. Here we find the red tape of charity. They must make rigid investigation for fear they may give aid to the unworthy. Well, by the time they get through their investigation, the poor man is dead. At this moment the young doctor just hears of the case and learns through finding the pawn ticket the slavey drops, what a jewel in the rough she is, as contrasted with the other women of the Charity Society. Consequently, the girl has made a stronger though mute appeal to him than did her efforts when togged out in her finery. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less

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16 cast members

Name	Known for
Mary Pickford Miss Wilkins (as Gladys Nicholson) Miss Wilkins (as Gladys Nicholson) See fewer	Coquette (1929)
W. Chrystie Miller The Poor Husband The Poor Husband See fewer	Ramona (1910)
Kate Bruce The Poor Wife The Poor Wife See fewer	Gretchen the Greenhorn (1916)
Edwin August The Doctor The Doctor See fewer	The Yellow Passport (1916)
William J. Butler The Tradesman The Tradesman See fewer	The Girl Who Didn't Think (1917)
Lloyd B. Carleton The Bailiff The Bailiff See fewer	The Flying Dutchman (1923)
Verner Clarges Charity Worker Charity Worker See fewer	A Yorkshire School (1910)
Edward Dillon In Hallway In Hallway See fewer	The Dice Woman (1926)
Francis J. Grandon In Pawn Shop In Pawn Shop See fewer	The Lure of Heart's Desire (1916)
Dell Henderson Boss in Store Boss in Store See fewer	Show People (1928)
Grace Henderson Charity Worker Charity Worker See fewer	A Corner in Wheat (1909)
Claire McDowell Charity Worker Charity Worker See fewer	Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925)
George Nichols Actor Actor See fewer	The Flirt (1922)
Alfred Paget Behind the Counter Behind the Counter See fewer	Intolerance (1916)
Lottie Pickford In Hallway In Hallway See fewer	Fanchon, the Cricket (1915)
Charles West Actor Actor See fewer	The Road to Yesterday (1925)