For 1914, this one-reel silent film is about average for a film. At 18 minutes and with a heavy-handed moral, it is about what you might expect to see in a theater.
The film is about a young woman who joins a sorority on campus. Pretty soon, she is so caught up in being a part of this group that she loses focus on right and wrong. Initially, she starts to snub her old friend who is not in the group but later she even resorts to stealing so she can look nice and blend in with the rich girls in the sorority. This is NOT handled in a subtle way, as the girl shoplifts and is then caught. The owner of the department store just happens to be the father of one of the girls in the organization and he comes there to bawl them all out for having horrid priorities and pushing the unfortunate girl to steal just to try to fit in. This seems awfully heavy-handed and simplistic--like it's a parable being hammered home to the audience instead of a realistic drama. The bottom line is that the sorority sisters were vain, but no one 'made' the young lady steal anything. Oh well, this part of the message apparently wasn't important to the moral of the tale of woe.
The film is about a young woman who joins a sorority on campus. Pretty soon, she is so caught up in being a part of this group that she loses focus on right and wrong. Initially, she starts to snub her old friend who is not in the group but later she even resorts to stealing so she can look nice and blend in with the rich girls in the sorority. This is NOT handled in a subtle way, as the girl shoplifts and is then caught. The owner of the department store just happens to be the father of one of the girls in the organization and he comes there to bawl them all out for having horrid priorities and pushing the unfortunate girl to steal just to try to fit in. This seems awfully heavy-handed and simplistic--like it's a parable being hammered home to the audience instead of a realistic drama. The bottom line is that the sorority sisters were vain, but no one 'made' the young lady steal anything. Oh well, this part of the message apparently wasn't important to the moral of the tale of woe.
