William Bechtel

Elizabeth Miller

Lizzie Conway

Mark Swan

John Tremayne was &quot;country-bred.&quot; After thirty years of city life, he still had the sturdy frame and the clear complexion which had been wrought of the cold spring water and fresh breezes of the Connecticut hills. When his old mot...

A Cause for Thankfulness

Markedly histrionic acting

An emotional picture with an effective Thanksgiving lesson. Good, well-thought-out letters help the story&apos;s impression, letters that are much better than usual. Markedly histrionic acting, especially of Elizabeth Miller as the detestable wife, but also of William Bechtel, as the worried businessman, and of the two children, give noticeable punch to the early scenes and again in the later scenes, where the qualities here noted compel our emotion. As a whole, the story gets over and easily makes us believe in it, though there are some scenes that are decidedly weak. The servant should not have needed to show the children where to wash up at their grandma&apos;s; then that scene where the parents see the children after the accident also failed to convince. - The Moving Picture World, December 6, 1913

An emotional picture with an effective Thanksgiving lesson. Good, well-thought-out letters help the story's impression, letters that are much better than usual. Markedly histrionic acting, especially of Elizabeth Miller as the detestable wife, but also of William Bechtel, as the worried businessman, and of the two children, give noticeable punch to the early scenes and again in the later scenes, where the qualities here noted compel our emotion. As a whole, the story gets over and easily makes us believe in it, though there are some scenes that are decidedly weak. The servant should not have needed to show the children where to wash up at their grandma's; then that scene where the parents see the children after the accident also failed to convince. - The Moving Picture World, December 6, 1913

John Tremayne was "country-bred." After thirty years of city life, he still had the sturdy frame and the clear complexion which had been wrought of the cold spring water and fresh breezes of the Connecticut hills. When his old mother wrote and told him how glad she would be if he and his family could come up and take Thanksgiving dinner in the old home, John Tremayne would have liked nothing better than to have written back that he and his family were coming to the old home not only for Thanksgiving, but for the rest of his days as well. Business affairs were not in a particularly prosperous condition, and John Tremayne at times grew heartily sick of the noisy clanging city and longed for the green fields of his youth. But Tremayne was married, and his wife was a typical society woman, who would as soon have thought of flying to the moon as going out to a dingy little farmhouse under any consideration whatever. So Tremayne wrote and told his mother that he was very, very sorry that they couldn't come. On Thanksgiving Day, Tremayne's children went to a football game at a college town some distance away. On their return, the Football Special was wrecked just outside the town in which old Mrs. Tremayne lived. The Tremayne children alighted safely from the wreck and made their way to their grandmother's house. The news of the train wreck was brought to Tremayne and his blasé wife. The shock nearly drove Mrs. Tremayne mad. Together, husband and wife sped out to the scene in their automobile, only to find no trace of their children in the wreckage. Sick at heart, Tremayne took his anguished wife to his mother's that she might wait there while he continued the search. The two children met them at the door, with "granny's" kind old face beaming placidly behind them. There is hardly anything else to say about this story except that the Tremaynes had their Thanksgiving dinner in the only place where Thanksgiving means anything, anyway, out home in the country.

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