The Dean's Daughters (1913)
Rev. William Wells, Dean of Cresswell, has two daughters, Bess and Louise. Bess wants to go to London to study art under a well-known master. Her talent as a painter, if she has any at all, is only passable. Louise, who really has the gift, sometimes gives two or three touches to Bessie's work that make them possible. One of these sketches decides the Dean to consent to Bessie's wishes and the sketch influences Harry Vane, the London artist, to accept Bessie as a pupil. This artist is successful and has many pupils. He has a gentle caressing way of treating the girls and Bessie, who is very much taken with him from the start, being young and impressionable, mistakes his manner and thinks that he is in love with her. This not being the case and Vane, seeing how matters stand, tells her that she has no talent and that she is wasting her time at his school. This is such a shock to Bessie that she breaks down and returns home in a hurry. When Louise hears her sister's story she believes that Vane has been trifling with her affections and she deliberately sets to work to avenge her. She goes to London and is admitted as a pupil to the school, under another name, and leads Vane on to fall in love with her. Her efforts meet with success. He shows her his masterpiece, tells her his hopes and ambitions and proposes. This is the chance she has been waiting for. She tells him who she is, accuses him of wronging her sister and cuts his masterpiece to shreds with the palette knife, leaving him dumb with horror for he really loves her. Poor Louise is full of remorse and self-accusation when she returns home and finds that Bessie has quite recovered. In fact has forgotten all about the artist. Louise has to admit to herself that she loves Vane but now that she has treated him so badly it is hopeless. However, Bess, for once in her life, thinks seriously of others rather than herself and takes in the situation. She writes to Vane and asks him to come and see them. When Vane arrives. Louise and he are left alone to explain away all difficulties.
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| Filmmakers | Role |
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| Walter Edwin | Director |
| Bannister Merwin | Writer |
| Cast | Role |
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| Robert Brower | |
| Mary Fuller | |
| Elsie MacLeod | |
| Marc McDermott |
