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Lois Weber, 1916: Eva Meyer (Mary MacLaren) stands all day in a five-and-dime and walks home on soles that have given out. The family eats on her wage; the father does not work; a new pair of shoes becomes a moral crisis. Weber shoots working-class life without the usual sermon. The shoes are the plot. From Stella Wynne Herron's story. The year Weber was among the highest-paid directors in America.
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Women Pioneers of Silent Cinema
Lois Weber took Stella Wynne Herron's story and made a fifty-minute picture about a five-and-dime wage and a pair of worn soles, with Mary MacLaren on her feet for most of it as Eva Meyer. In 1916 Weber was among the highest-paid directors in America; this is what she spent that authority on, a Universal feature that looks at women's labor instead of a star entrance. She shoots the job and the walk home without dressing them up as a sermon. The shoes are the plot, and a woman in charge of the camera decided they were enough to carry the feature.
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