The Price of Gold
R: Unknown. D: Dolores Cassinelli, Dorothy Phillips, Bryant Washburn, E.H. Calvert, Frank Dayton, Helen Dunbar. P: Essanay Film Manufacturing. USA 1913

“Which would you choose, providing you could have your choice in the matter? A husband with lots of money, one that you could not love, or a husband without money, one that you adored? This was the terrible question that confronted Lois Roberts. She had lived almost all her young life in want, so chose the former. Her sweetheart of old, gave her up only too unwillingly and went back to his work as a railroad engineer. The empty life Lois led in all her wealth and splendor, did not satisfy the woman who had decided to live without love. (…)
Moving Picture World synopsis

“The Price of Gold (1913) has the attractive Dorothy Phillips giving up her railwayman beau in favour of a wealthy gent old enough to be he grandfather. One he has tempted her, marriage becomes a childless bore with an old fart who ignores her in favour of his daily paper. Deciding to leave… A very nice copy, but perhaps incomplete as we don’t know what she intends to do after leaving the dreary fellow. The picture of what-may-have-been is perhaps idealised, and the girl doesn’t seem to have developed any interests to counter her daily routine. Pretty watchable, though.”
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