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- Before the AfD withdrawal at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/In the Twilight (2nd nomination), I planned to write this:
Keep per the significant coverage in multiple independent reliable sources.
- Caward, Neil G. (1915-02-20). "Song Basis of an Excellent Production". Motography. Vol. 13, no. 8. p. 277. Retrieved 2023-04-17 – via Internet Archive.
The article was published in 1915, so it is in the Wikipedia:Public domain. The article notes:
"In the Twilight," the two-reel American release of February 15, will be found one of the most wholesome heart-interest stories ever released by the American Film Manufacturing Company. It is based, as one can easily imagine, on the song entitled "Love's Old Sweet Song," and verses of this are at several points in the picture shown on the screen by double exposure.
Photographically the feature is a gem, some of the scenes on a peaceful farm being real works of art, and comparable to nothing less than paintings. Harry Von Meter, Jack Richardson, Vivian Rich and Charlotte Burton have the four leading roles, and all of them are seen to advantage, though possibly Mr. Richardson is a bit the more entitled to praise for his clever characterizations.
As the story opens we learn that Ellen and Mary, two sisters, are loved by Sam and George Drew, the sturdy sons of a nearby farmer. The boys call on their sweethearts, and ere they depart both couples are engaged. The mother of Ellen and Mary is grief-stricken at the thought that both her daughters are to leave her, but with a smile sits down at the old parlor organ, and all join in singing "Love's Old Sweet Song." As the melody fades, the old lady cautions the young folks that they must keep their love and happiness as pure and sweet to the twilight of life as it now seems. They laugh and declare that beyond a doubt it will remain that way.
As time passes George obtains a long sought opportunity to get work in the city and departs, after telling Ellen that once he has secured a foothold in the metropolis he will return for her. In the city George meets and becomes engaged to Doris Grant, the daughter of his employer, and poor Ellen is soon forgotten.
Sam and Mary eventually marry, and a year later a little girl comes to bless their union, while Ellen is more gloomy than ever after reading in the newspaper of the birth of a daughter to George and his wife. Though Sam and Mary have prospered, George, in a city home, has acquired numerous bad habits and finally is discharged for incompetency, takes to drink, and as a culmination of his career is sentenced to the penitentiary for a crime he committed while drunk.
Meanwhile Sam and his wife are called to the city to be present at the death of George's wife, and ere returning they adopt George's little girl, who has been left an orphan. Years later, when George's term has been served out, the humbled man returns to the home of his youth, and passing the humble cottage, he sees his brother. George pauses outside the window attracted by the soft refrain of “Love's Old Sweet Song," which is being played on the phonograph by the two little girls within.
George's head falls in his arms, and his sobs are heard by Sam. When Sam goes to investigate he is amazed to discover his brother, but warmly welcomes him into his home, and as the picture ends George seems ready to begin life anew, while Ellen, ever faithful, is ready to do her part in giving him a new start.
As a fitting finish to the picture the closing scene, like the first one, is typical of the title and is tinted in the soft shade of rose which American uses for its twilight effects.
- "In the Twilight". The Moving Picture World. 23 (9): 1289. 1915-02-27. Retrieved 2023-04-17 – via Internet Archive.
The article was published in 1915, so it is in the Wikipedia:Public domain. The article notes:
In the Twilight (American), Feb. 15.—A two-reel photoplay of the sentimental type, written by Marc Edmund Jones. It is very successful in its way and leads up to a home-coming scene of real pathos. The opening scenes are pastoral and show two brothers and two sisters living on adjoining farms. One brother deserts his sweetheart for the city; the other marries and remains home. Later years bring reverses and failure to the city man. He returns broken and penniless to find the happy family gathered about a victrola playing "Love's Old Sweet Song." He is forgiven and taken in. This is obviously sentimental in treatment, but gets over very well. The photography is pleasing and the cast good.
- "In the Twilight—American (Two Reels). A Touching Drama of Love, Disappointment and Tardy Fulfillment". Reel Life. 2015-02-06. p. 12. Retrieved 2023-04-17 – via Internet Archive.
The article was published in 1915, so it is in the Wikipedia:Public domain. The article notes:
In the Twilight—American
(Two Reels)
A Touching Drama of Love, Disappointment and Tardy Fulfillment
February 15, 1915
CAST
Samuel Drew—Harry von Meter
George Drew—Jack Richardson
John Drew, their father—Perry Banks
Mary Harris—Vivian Rich
Ellen, her sister—Charlotte Burton
Their Mother—Louise Lester
Doris Grant—Josephine Ditt
David Grant, her father—Robert Klein
Clarence Handyslides—Reaves Eason
Ellen and Mary, two sisters, are courted by George and Sam, who are brothers. At evening when the girls' mother plays to them the twilight song, she tells them that just as they are happy now in the twilight of the day, so must they watch to keep their love and happiness also in the twilight hour of life. They laugh, never doubting the future. Mary and Sam are married, and their hopes are fulfilled. George, however, goes to the city where he goes rapidly down hill. He marries Doris Grant, and Ellen is left on the farm, broken-hearted. Years later, George, released from penitentiary, his wife dead, seeks the home of his boyhood. He finds that Sam and Mary have adopted his little girl—and faithful Ellen still is waiting. Thus, in the twilight of life, the lovers, whose early dreams were frustrated, find their happiness together.
- Caward, Neil G. (1915-02-20). "Song Basis of an Excellent Production". Motography. Vol. 13, no. 8. p. 277. Retrieved 2023-04-17 – via Internet Archive.