The Story of Two Lives (1909)
In a plain little room of a tenement house lives a young lady with her sick mother whom she supports. She is blessed with a beautiful voice which is greatly admired by mother and friends. In the room below lives a young composer who is writing an opera with which he hopes to achieve fame and fortune. Suddenly he stops. He hears a fall in the room above him. Now his door is thrown open and the young lady from above calls excitedly for his assistance. He accompanies her to the room where he finds the mother prostrated upon the floor. A doctor is called but the mother is dead. A month has passed. The girl is out of work and despondent. Her last hope lies in a bottle of poison which she bought with the intention of ending all her earthly troubles. Just then she hears a knock at the door. She hides the bottle in the table drawer and opens the door. The young composer enters, telling her that he feels lonely in his cold room and asking permission to share his meal with her. She meekly consents. He at once brings an arm full of eatables which she spreads upon the table. Tired and weak, the poor girl falls asleep. The young composer quietly slips some coins into the table drawer. There he sees the poison and is startled. He takes the bottle and leaves the room. Awakening the girl finds the poison gone and at once recognizes the truth. The next morning the girl goes out, her guitar in her hand, to earn money by singing along the highways. Her unusually fine voice as well as her appearance attracts attention and money is showered upon her. An old lady in an electric brougham stops in astonishment and after speaking to her hands her a visiting card and invites her to call. She then drives away. The young lady, overcome from lack of nourishment, faints. The cards is found in her possession and as the people think this to be her address they carry her to the home of the old lady where she is well taken care of. Ten years have passed. The young lady has become a famous opera singer while the composer is on the verge of despair. His opera has been turned down by all the managers. He has no money to buy food and is turned out of his room by the heartless landlord. At this time the famous opera singer reads in the paper that although the composition of our young composer has received the highest reward, his opera will not be presented, but another one will be the feature of the next operatic season. The name electrifies the opera singer. She well remembers that it is he who saved her life many years ago. She quickly calls up the manager of the opera house and tells him that she will not sing except it be the leading part of the young composer's opera. She receives the promise of the opera being produces and quickly hurries away to bring the glad tidings to the young composer for whom she searched in vain so many years. He in despair had stuffed up the crevices of doors and windows and turned on the gas to do its deadly work. She calls for assistance. The door is broken in and the composer found nearly lifeless. He is quickly revived. Explanations follow and arm in arm the two leave the room. He saved her life years ago and she was glad to be able to do the same for him. From the love light in her eyes it may be seen that she will make his opera a great success.
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GenresDrama
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| Filmmakers | Role |
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| Siegmund Lubin | Producer |
