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Fit for Burning (1916)
Short | Short, Drama

Fit for Burning (1916)

Short | Short, Drama

Constance Grey meets and falls in love with Dick Foraker, the editor of the reform paper. Dick is her idol and her ideal. He is the noble and unselfish champion of every cause that looks for moral betterment. That is what she thinks; that ...See moreConstance Grey meets and falls in love with Dick Foraker, the editor of the reform paper. Dick is her idol and her ideal. He is the noble and unselfish champion of every cause that looks for moral betterment. That is what she thinks; that is what all the city thinks, except poor Madge Martin. One day Sophie Masters disappears. Constance searches for her in vain. Then she thinks of Madge Martin, who is now one of the owners of a notorious resort. Constance describes the missing girl to Madge. That night Constance goes to the resort. Madge leads her to a door and asks her to look through the transom. Constance looks. What she sees is little Sophie Masters in the arms of Dick Foraker. There are empty wine glasses on the table, which tell their own story. Dick sees the face through the transom. But in his drunken condition he thinks it is a phantom. Then it is shown how Madge almost becomes mad with rage when she learns that her beloved Constance had been dealt almost a mortal blow by Foraker. She confronts this arch-hypocrite, the author of her own first great suffering, and tries to tear him to pieces. The men of the establishment come to her assistance and it goes hard with Foraker. The next day the editor is seated at his desk reading in his own paper an account of how he was pitched upon by ruffians and badly beaten while on a mission of uplift in the slums. He thinks of the quick and eager sympathy of Constance Grey when he tells her of the outrage, and how she will love him more, if possible, for the things he has suffered for humanity's sake. But his complacent musings are interrupted by a boy who hands him a package; it is the ring he gave Constance; it is accompanied with a brief note, just a few words of molten grief, direct from her broken heart. But it is enough to convince Dick Foraker that the face at the transom was not a figment of his brain, that those pure serene eyes had beheld him with his mask off, and nowhere in this wide world could he ever again hide his shame. And poor Madge Martin, tormented beyond endurance by her conscience, seeks oblivion in the river, while Constance Grey, strong of mind and high of soul, rises superior to the shocks of life and continues her work of love and kindness among the weak and downtrodden. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less

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7 cast members

Name	Known for
Vera Sisson Constance Grey Constance Grey See fewer	The Married Virgin (1918)
Charles Perley Rev. Mr. Thorndyke Rev. Mr. Thorndyke See fewer	The Chosen Prince, or the Friendship of David and Jonathan (1917)
Gretchen Hartman Madge Martin Madge Martin See fewer	Les Misérables (1917)
Charles Hill Mailes Richard Foraker (as Charles H. Mailes) Richard Foraker (as Charles H. Mailes) See fewer	The Mark of Zorro (1920)
Ivan Christy John Masters John Masters See fewer	Seven Footprints to Satan (1929)
Cora Drew Mrs. Masters Mrs. Masters See fewer	The Burned Hand (1915)
Grace La Rue Sophie Masters Sophie Masters See fewer	She Done Him Wrong (1933)