The Melting Pot (1915)
1915 · Silent film · 5 min · dir. Oliver D. Bailey, James Vincent
It Breathes a Spirit of the Best Americanism in Our History
- Drama
Synopsis
David Quixans. a young Jewish violinist living in the town of Kishineff, Russia, is left an orphan through the massacre of the orthodox Jews upon the "Black Easter" of Russia, when under the leadership of Baron Revandel, Governor of Kishineff, who has been commissioned by the Czar to baptize one-third and massacre one-third of all the Jews in Russia, he is left orphaned in his ruined home. The sympathy of Vera, the daughter of the Baron, is aroused in connection with the Jewish outrage of which she is a witness. While upon an errand of mercy, she attracts the attention of the Czar's spies and is subsequently made a prisoner, where her father refuses to recognize her and she is sentenced to Siberia. A Jewish woman who wishes to join her husband in Siberia induces Vera to change places with her and Vera successfully makes her escape upon a trading vessel bound for America. David is exiled with the Jews to America. He joins his uncle in "The Music Master" and "Grandmother" in New York. Vera in America finds employment in a Russian Mission upon the East Side, where she attracts the attention, by her beauty and culture, of Quincy Davenport, a patron of music in search of genius upon the East Side. Vera interests Davenport in David, whom she has met, and Davenport offers to send him abroad to study, realizing the possibilities of his music. David refuses to be patronized by a man who had no greater aim in life than amusement. Instead, he interests a German music master in a…
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Details
- Director
- Oliver D. Bailey, James Vincent
- Writer
- Catherine Carr
- Studio
- Centaur Film Company, Cort Film Corp.
- Released
- 1915-05-15
- Running time
- 5 minutes
Subjects on the Internet Archive
- Recipies
- Food
- Chefs
Cast & crew
- Oliver D. Bailey, James Vincent Director
- Walker Whiteside
Valentine Grant- Fletcher Harvey
