Her Three Proposals (1911)
Through a series of trifling mishaps, Katherine Crosby meets three strangers in her far-off western town. Her father being a prosperous ranchman, had entrusted her education to an eastern boarding school, and from which she had new been at home but one week, when the ranch life monotony is broken by this all-important turn of events. In descending the slippery stairs of the general store, she accidentally trips and falls, sliding to the bottom with marked celerity, where she is helped to her feet by Samuel Stuart, a traveling salesman. Thanking him for his assistance, she also tenders her card upon his request for permission to call and ascertain her state of health. He had scarcely left her when up strides I. Rutherford Ford, banker from the east, and picks up her fallen packages and hands them to her. A few verbal courtesies are exchanged and he also receives her card. Turning the corner, she is saved from a snowball attack of an urchin by the timely interference of William Hoadley, cowpuncher and faddist. A third card is then presented with the proverbial invitation. In each instance, the man avails himself of the opportunity, and all three call and present their cards the same evening. Kate is equal to the occasion, however, and at their departure each man considers himself the favored one. A week of calling and receiving serves to embolden the three suitors, and on this particular snowy afternoon, while lounging in her window, Kate becomes the recipient of three proposals of marriage. To each is appended a request for an immediate answer. Smiling and happy, this gay young woman falls asleep crowing over and fondling her proposals as a child does a toy. She dreams, married in turn to each of her admirers, her experiences are harrowing, gay environments in hand with intrigue and tears, a house of squalor with privations, hunger, brutal treatment, and then driven forth homeless, alone and uncared for! She awakes, but so startling are the after-effects, that she destroys the proposals with a solemn vow to ever remain single. Years after, again we look in that window and see her with her only companions, her dog, her cat and her parrot; also the sole connection with the past, which is a box containing the torn-up proposals.
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| Filmmakers | Role |
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| Mark M. Dintenfass | Producer |
