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Lois Weber, 1921: Professor Griggs (Philip Hubbard) teaches on a wage that will not feed his family, while the shoemaker next door eats well. Daughter Amelia (Claire Windsor) works the library; rich student Phil West (Louis Calhern) falls for her and finally sees the hole in her shoe. Weber shoots real Los Angeles streets and a chicken almost stolen, then put back. The blot is not poverty. It is what the well-off refuse to notice.
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Women Pioneers of Silent Cinema
Lois Weber wrote, directed, and produced this through Lois Weber Productions in 1921, after the Universal years, and kept the camera on a professor's wage that will not feed his family. Claire Windsor's Amelia works the library; Louis Calhern's rich student finally sees the hole in her shoe. She shot on real Los Angeles streets, often in narrative sequence, which was her way of working once she had her own company. F. B. Warren distributed it independently. The credit is hers: a woman still running the cut, the budget, and that social argument.
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