"When
May Weds
December"
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Look Out for the Affinity
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Written by GILSON WILLETTS
Produced by P. J. GRANDON
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PRANK BELMONT, A Young Author
Frank Newburff
SILAS BLACK, A Retired Banker
. .Ray Watson
MISS MAY FORCE, A College Graduate
Adele lane
MRS. FORCE, May's Mother
Lillian Kay ward
MRS. BELMONT, Frank's —*
. . Emma Bell
"Then let thy love be younger than thyself,
Lest thy affection doth not thee bent."
So sang the Shakesperean sonnet ages ago, reflecting the domestic condition of the
mismated bard, whose wife was much older than himself. This state of affairs has
continued pretty much the same ever since where a great discrepancy exists in age,
and marriages contracted merely with a monetary point in view, seldom have the
blessing of heaven. Mrs. Force, a social parasite, with a beautiful daughter, is so
closely pressed by her creditors, that she uses her beautiful child as an asset, urging
her to accept the offer of the hand of an aged banker, Black, old enough to be her
grandfather. This doddering magnate has an ungovernable temper that brings such
immediate and sharp unhappiness to the young woman that she soon leaves him
and seeks solace in a lonely resort at the seashore. The months fly by and the disappearance of the young wife is an unsolved mystery, until the body of a young woman
washed ashore, is identified by Banker Black as his wife by the clothing she wears.
Strangely enough, she reads this account of her own presumable death in the paper;
but she has learned to love a young author at the lonely resort, and visits her aged
husband, hoping to get his consent to free her from her bonds. Her
©appearance at his hotel before him, as one returned from the dead,
gives him such a shock, that he almost dies of heart failure. His
valet, who has stood his abuse for years, manages to bring him back
to life, but Black is in such a fit of temper, that he attempts to destroy the faithful servant and in the struggle that ensues, the latter
kills him. The valet immediately surrenders himself to the police,
arguing he acted in self-defense. Mrs. Black has now become free
and eventually returns to those who have become more to her than
mere money, and makes her home where her heart is.
SELIG
