Jim Webb, Senator (1914)
Jim Webb, a new Congressman, arrives in Washington after bidding his little mother in their South village goodbye, dressed as his father dressed before him: wide-brimmed black hat, "Prince Albert", and bow tie. But what he lacks in style--as city style goes--he makes up for with his sturdy tongue, his ability to mold others' opinions. Time soon finds him the chairman of one of the important Senate committees. Certain moneyed interests are desirous of having a bill passed. Through its lobbyists, Jim is approached and offered a bribe to throw his influence to the bill's support. Knowing that the bill is crooked, Jim turns down the offer. Other means failing to reach him, the "Interest" sets one of its most fascinating women lobbyists against him with the object of furthering the crooked measure. The plan works so successfully that Jim ultimately falls desperately in love with her. As an incident in her plan, she induces him to abandon the antebellum style of clothes for the latest thing in dress. At the close of the Congressional session, Jim has engaged himself to the lobbyist, Marion. He induces her to return with him and meet his parents. On arriving, Jim's constituents look askance at the change in his appearance. "He ain't the same old Jim" is their comment. During Marion's stay in Jim's hometown, she first awakens to her position; the associations with Jim's mother awakens the best in her womanly nature. At the beginning of the next session, the crooked bill is brought up for its first reading. Meanwhile, Marion, having fallen in love with Jim, informs the men who have employed her that she cannot continue with the scheme. Later, she confesses all to Jim. This comes like the proverbial thunderbolt from a clear sky to Jim. Marion had become such a part of his life that he had, to please her, promised to put the crooked bill through. The play closes with the lobbyists' last desperate effort to shut Jim out of the meeting, their failure and denouncement, Jim's forgiveness of Marion, and a glance at the new road of happiness stretching out for the two young people.
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| King Baggot | Director |
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| Leah Baird | |
| Howard Crampton | |
| William Welsh |
