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THE MOVING PICTURE WEEKLY
"The Golden Heart"
(Copyright, 1917.
Universal Film
Mfg. Co.)
OOR little heart. You just come and live with me. There will be only us two in all the world, and you can have everything I've got. I promised your mother that I would take care of you, and I will."
Embittered against the world by the death of his wife and his own child, Harry Fenstein had devoted his entire energy to the making of money. He ran a pawnshop. It was an honest one, but any one that beat old Fenstein out of a nickel could justly brag of his feat. The only bright spot in his life was Mary, the little daughter of the widow Forarty, who lived in a small house next to his pawn shop and clothing establishment. When Mary's mother died suddenly Fenstein had promised to take care of her child, and when a wealthy la^vyer and his wife sent by the Children's Aid Society had offered to adopt her, he very zealously concealed little Mary in his shop and denied knowing anything about the girl.
The lawyer is anxious to adopt the little girl whom he saw at the funeral, and he and his wife take Fenstein's denial very much to heart. For the time being they go away, but tell Fenstein that they will come back.
Mary helps Fenstein tend the shop, and while she is alone in it one day
Written by Charles A. Wilson, Jr.
TWO-REEL Zoe Rae Feature. Produced by Geo. L. Sargent from a scenario by Karl R. Coolidge. A. wonderful human-interest story of a second hand clothing merchant and his only human treasure.
CAST.
Fenstein Walter Belasco
Mary .' Zoe Rae
Widow Forarty Maud Emory
The Man Seymour Hastings
His Wife Gertrude Aster
John Gleeton Seymour Zeliff
a crook seeking shelter dashes in and hides under the counter. Mary starts to give an alarm, but the crook
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silences her and finally in pity she shields him from the cop who comes into the store. After all danger is over Mary goes up to the crook and says, "It's all safe now. Don't you want to buy a new suit of clothes? Yours looks pretty old." The seriousness of the situation being broken, John Gleeton laughs from relief, and for two dollars buys himself a new suit of clothes.
True to their word, the lawyer and his wife return.
"Have you seen anything of the little girl who used to live next door?"
"No, I never saw her," said Fenstein, but at that moment little Mary comes out from the rear room. The lawyer and his wife have letters of adoption, and his one ray of sunshine goes out of his life. But little Mary cannot forget her old home, though every effort is made for her happiness. One day she jumps into the back of a wagon and when she comes to Fenstein's store she jumps out, and the old man nearly passes away for very joy.
A day it lasted. Then came Mary's new parents, and though it was like giving up his life blood, Fenstein realized that the education and home that they could provide would be so much superior to his that, with sorrow in his heart, but a smile on his lips, he says good-bye to Tittle Mary.