PUT TO THE TEST
A MUSICAL IDOL TURNS TO SILENT CLAY
Written by HELEN MERIT Produced by HARDEE KIRKLAND
CAST
GERTRUDE GREY Winnif red Greenwood PAUL MARCHMONT William Stowell
OWENS TALE Tom Carrigan MAX DESCI Edwin Wallack
MRS. DESCI Gloria Oallop
GERTRUDE GREY, the sweet singer in a country church choir, is beloved by Owens Vale, a
gallant youth, who loves her for herself alone. Max Desci, a teacher from the great city, hears
her sing one Sunday and immediately offers to educate her, so she goes away amid tears of
farewell. Among the patrons of Desci's atelier is Paul Marchmont, a young millionaire, who is immediately enamoured by the voice and becomes the shadow of the young singer. Their engagement
is to be announced the night of her debut. Poor Vale, longing for his sweetheart who has wandered
to the city, accidentally oversees a scene that confirms report. The night of her debut "stage-fright"
paralyzes her vocal chords and an eminent specialist, immediately summoned, declares she will never
sing again. When Marchmont hears this he leaves the city, sending her a note that their engagement
must be indefinitely postponed. Discouraged, the broken girl returns to the country-side, and when
time has healed the cruel wounds, she marries the faithful friend and lover, Vale. One day, after the
baby comes, she is seized with an uncontrollable desire to sing, and all
the pent-up founts of song, inspired by the mother love, break forth.
Her husband is delighted, and they pick up matters where they dropped
so pitifully, and she makes a wonderfully successful debut under the
direction of Desci. She gives the fawning Marchmont the grand "cutout," and her husband and child are her single thought, as the tumult
■i of her rapturous listeners storms her ears in her hour of triumph.
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^»my ;r^-T-l WILUAM M. SEL1G
Los' An'seVs'^S. FROM THE COLLECT.ON OF ?"17"13 Copyright, 1913, by The Sell* Polycop. ,
.. J CHARLES G. CLARKE
