Synopsis
Eva Meyer works in a five and ten-cent store for five dollars a week. At home her mother takes in washing to help support three smaller children and a lazy, beer-drinking, novel-reading, good-for-nothing husband and father. For months Eva has needed a pair of shoes. As the weeks pass the necessity for shoes increases, until finally heavy rains set in and rot what little there is left of her bedraggled and worthless shoes, until they are literally falling from her feet. Eva brings her unopened pay envelope home to her mother every Saturday night, to be, each time, promised that "next week" she should have the money for a pair of shoes. She has set her heart upon a pair that are displayed in a shop window she passes going to and from her work. But each week there is a new and valid reason for postponement; the rent must be paid, the merchants will no longer trust them for food, and the worthless father is still out of work. And all this time she sees the money she has earned go for beer, dime novels and food to satisfy her shiftless parent's desires. Finally, one Saturday night, she demands of her father that he shall provide her with a pair of shoes. Her only solace is the retort from the man who was her natural protector and supporter that he also needed shoes for himself. Then and there Eva resolves that she shall no longer suffer from sore feet, blistered and splintered from the rough floor upon which she stands behind the counter. One of her fellow-slaves in the five and…
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Details
- Director
- Lois Weber
- Writer
- Jane Addams
- Cinematography
- King D. Gray
- Studio
- Bluebird Photoplays, Universal Film Manufacturing Company
- Released
- 1916-06-26
- Running time
- 20 minutes
- Language
- English
- Collection
- Silent Films, Feature Films
Cast & crew
Lois Weber Director
Mary MacLaren- Harry Griffith
- Mattie Witting
Jessie Arnold
William V. Mong
Lina Basquette
John George
Violet Schram