The Love of Beauty (1913)
Nellie Williams is in love with Jim Ambrose, a blind youth, and Jim is just as greatly in love with Nellie. While he is blind he realizes repeatedly her beauty of character in her helping the poor, her treatment of him in giving her time to read to him and take him walking. Also, he feels her great love for everything beautiful and is positive that she must be wonderfully beautiful herself. When he tells her so it hurts to the quick, but so long as he cannot see it makes no difference. Finally a specialist decides he can give him his sight through an operation. The operation is a success and Nellie sees Jim as he gains his sight. His rapture over his mother's beauty, the beauty of the sunshine, pictures, flowers, etc., only serve to make her suffering greater, and when a rather homely housemaid enters he turns from her in such evident loathing that Nellie cannot stand it any longer and runs home, vowing never to let him see her and torture her with that same look. Jim vows Nellie must be even more beautiful than his mother and keeps asking why she hasn't been in to see him. His mother realizes the trouble and makes excuses. Later Jim meets a beautiful girl whom he thinks must be Nellie and he is disappointed when he learns it is not her. He phones her, but she refuses to allow him to call. He decides he will and goes to her house. Meanwhile Nellie has been seized upon by a group of her children friends and is deeply engrossed in reading them fairy stories when Jim is admitted. Her back is toward him and he calls her name. She gets up and faces him. He thinks it can't be his Nellie. She assures him it is and is heartbroken at the look on his face and flees from the room. He seeks out the beautiful girl, and her treatment and lack of appreciation in regard to the flowers he brings her and her small kid brother startle him into a half realization of the difference between the two, the one lovely in her physical beauty, the other endowed with a beautiful character. They go out and he leaves her on the comer, while he takes a blind beggar across the street. She resents his leaving her there alone for a beggar and a quarrel results. It is the finishing touch and he goes back to Nellie to win her forgiveness. Needless to say, he is forgiven now that he understands.
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GenresDrama
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| Filmmakers | Role |
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| George Terwilliger | Writer |
| Siegmund Lubin | Producer |
| Cast | Role |
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| Lionel Adams | |
| Fanny Cossar | |
| Mary Smith |
