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The New Love And The Old

DirectorAlice Guy-Blaché

1912
5 min

The boy Is a bachelor of thirty who by diligence and perseverance is on the road to success. The boy's success gains him introduction into fashionable and aristocratic circles. He meets the girl and falls In love with her. She Is selfish, proud, snobbish, and has a great contempt for her social inferiors. The girl treats the mother like a servant, and rebukes her severely when she accidentally spills some sugar on her dress. The old mother bursts into tears. The boy resents his fiancee's treatment of his mother. She is furious that he should take sides against her, and In a rage demands that he choose between them. He hesitates a moment between the old love and the new, and then folds his old mother in his arms.

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