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The Call of the Footlights
(1914) United States of America
B&W : Split-reel
Directed by Charles H. France
Cast: Cora Williams [Miss Ashton], Bliss Milford [Sophie], Roland Milasch (Robert Milasch) [Enoch]
Thomas A. Edison, Incorporated, production; distributed by The General Film Company, Incorporated. / Released 28 January 1914; in a split-reel with How Bobby Called Her Bluff (1914). / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Drama.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? Sophie and Enoch worked in a large hotel. Sophie was a chambermaid. Enoch was a bellboy. Sophie was small and plain, but beneath her placid face there lurked the fires of romance. Sophie in her secret heart knew that she was a genius. Enoch was tall. He approached the conventional idea of a bell tower far more closely than that of a bellboy. We do not know exactly how tall he was. At a guess we should say nine feet, or possibly yards. Apart from his majestic height, Enoch was also plain to outward view. But, like Sophie, he was conscious of dim half-comprehended pulsings of genius within his giraffe-like frame. When Miss Ashton came to live at their hotel, the pathway of fume opened out before the astonished eyes of Enoch and Sophie. Miss Ashton was an actress. When she learned that the dearest desire of Enoch and Sophie was to act, Miss Ashton resolved to help them along. She had a very keen sense of humor. Accordingly, she searched among her things, found a play of the deepest and gloomiest type of melodrama and decided that it would be just the thing for Enoch and Sophie. She supplied them with costumes and all other necessaries and set them to rehearsing: the play. The rehearsals nearly killed Miss Ashton. She was only a poor, weak woman and she felt that she could not survive much more of the helpless laughter that seized her whenever the curious pair started to act. But at last the period of rehearsal was over. Miss Ashton managed to get them an opening in a ten-cent theater. It is useless for us to attempt to explain what happened to Enoch and Sophie in that theater. Art is long and time is fleeting. They discovered the first part of this truth toward the beginning of their performance and near the end they learned that there are other things than time which are fleeting. They used a hook in that particular theater.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 25 June 2020.
References: Website-IMDb.
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