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  • The Strength of the Weak (1912)
  • Short | Short, Drama
The Strength of the Weak (1912)
Short | Short, Drama
When Howard Velsey came from the medical school, bringing his diploma, great was the praise of the old farm folks, but none was so proud and happy as his sweetheart, Marion. But soon after Howard's return he departed again for the city, to...See moreWhen Howard Velsey came from the medical school, bringing his diploma, great was the praise of the old farm folks, but none was so proud and happy as his sweetheart, Marion. But soon after Howard's return he departed again for the city, to use his learning for the afflicted and the suffering. And Marion wove dreams about her hero, dreams of many battles with death in which Howard was always the victor, dreams in which the people freed from the slavery of suffering blessed him and lauded his name. In the city Howard became assistant to a renowned and popular physician, and in his new duties and new professional life he forgot Marion. When the letters stopped coming she wondered and worried, and determined to come to the city and seek her sweetheart. The mortar and steel of the city had gone into his heart, so he told her that he could no longer think of her, that he had become too big and his work too important to give her any attention. So her heart broke a little, and she became a nurse. A call came one day while the chief was out making his presence imperative at a patient's bedside, and Howard volunteered his services. To his amazement, when he arrived at the home of the sick, he found Marlon, who was there acting as nurse. The surprise of their meeting may have taken his mind off the patient and his malady, or it may just have been an inadequate knowledge of medicine, but he made a mistake in the prescription, and so a little later, when the nurse telephoned that their patient was dying, the doctor, fearing the consequences, refused to return to the sick chamber. It was Marion who administered the antidote that saved the man's life. It was she who later again telephoned that the man was alive; and when his courage returned and he called, it was she who refused his offer of marriage, now made in all sincerity and meekness, telling him that she had dedicated her life to the ill and afflicted forevermore. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less
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Stanner E.V. Taylor
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Updated Mar 24, 1912
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Mar 24, 1912 (United States)

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