Jack Kennard, Coward (1915)

movie

Country: USA
Genres: Drama, Short
Release: 1915-05-05
Director: Charles M. Seay
Writers: William Moulton Marston
Language: None | English
Stars: Tom McEvoy , Harry Beaumont (1888–1966) , Olive Templeton , Julia Calhoun , Marie La Manna
Runtime: min
Awards: N/A
AKA: Jack Kennard, Coward , Jack Kennard, Coward (United States of America)
Plot: Jack Kennard has returned to his home from New York for the holidays. Ed Cottrell, a classmate of Jack's, is also in town. Hardly has Jack greeted his parents when a note arrives from Miriam Phelps, inviting him to her home. Jack is seated talking to Miriam when Cottrell enters. It is evident that there is jealousy between Cottrell and Jack. As the situation is embarrassing, Jack rises to go, getting the assurance of Miriam, however, that she will accompany him to the Easter Monday dance. When he has gone, Cottrell asks Miriam how she can love a man who is considered a coward at college. He tells her he will prove it at the dance. Jack receives a letter from the dean of the college informing him that he will be liable to expulsion if he does not pay his many creditors who have entered complaint against him. In order to square himself. Jack borrows $300 from Cottrell. At the dance, Cottrell, in the presence of Miriam, calls him a coward. Jack resents this, and when a scene seems inevitable, Cottrell takes Jack aside and reminds him of the loan. Jack meekly walks off, leaving him with Miriam, rather than have her know. Miriam still holds her confidence in Jack and repulses Cottrell. Back at college in New York Jack is downhearted. His mother has, in the meantime, learned of his debt to Cottrell, and paid it. Miriam received a letter from her aunt in New York inviting her to pay her a visit. Hoping that she might see Jack again, she accepts, and arrives in New York. Cottrell recognizes her on the street and learns her address from the chauffeur, but Jack does not know of her presence in the city. While waiting for an elevated train, Jack sees a child on the tracks in the path of an on-coming train. He rescues her, the girl being the sister of one of the boys Cottrell had hired to beat up Jack a few days before. Miriam happens on the platform as Jack is helped off the tracks. She recognizes him and invites him to the house. While there the brother of the girl whom he saved telephones to Miriam, and tells her that Jack had fought several men a few nights before because one spoke disparagingly of Miriam. The newspaper, the morning after the fight, stated that Jack was beaten up because he made certain remarks about a lady. Miriam looks at Jack and asks whether it is true. It is.
IMDB:tt1244052