From Shadow to Sunshine (1910)
Playing small parts and doing "extra" work at the theater, the heroine of this sketch struggles to support her sick mother and little sister. The mother engrosses her mind and attention to such an extent that she is detained at home, arrives at the theater late for rehearsal and receives notice of her dismissal from the company. The loading man, a generous, whole-souled fellow, notices her weeping, asks the cause, and. learning the circumstances, comforts her and succeeds in getting the manager to reinstate her. After the performance he accompanies her home, buying necessaries and dainties for her mother on the way. When he arrives at the poor girl's home, he finds her mother very sick, brings a physician who administers to her and is paid by the actor. Through their good friend's kindness they are enabled to tide over the days of want and place themselves in more comfortable circumstances. Seven years later things are reversed; the benevolent and beneficent actor, through sickness, is now in want and incapacitated. He goes in search of a position and invariably is "turned down" or switched on the "we'll take your name and address" siding. He is discouraged and hopeless when a messenger enters with a call from a manager to come to the theater for rehearsal. He is so overjoyed, the excitement in his exhausted condition is too much for him, his heart is weak and he falls in a dead faint. The messenger returns to the manager and reports the old actor's illness. While he is telling about it, the heroine, who is the leading woman and celebrated actress, Helen Dale, overhears the messenger and recognizes the name of her benefactor. She at once goes to his assistance. At first her old friend does not know her, gradually he calls her to mind, and when she tells him of her success he forgets for the time his own troubles in the enjoyment of her story. In appreciation and gratitude of his past kindnesses to her she now provides for his immediate needs and then takes him to her delightful home, where, in ease and comfort, he lives the remainder of his days.
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