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Tides of Time (1915)
Short | Short, Drama

Tides of Time (1915)

Short | Short, Drama

The greed of Edmund Stark, employer of thousands, brings sorrow to the laborers. Mary Martin, so-called "Mother" to the laborers, appeals to Stark for the people. Stark refuses. She recalls her early romance with him which left a scar upon...See moreThe greed of Edmund Stark, employer of thousands, brings sorrow to the laborers. Mary Martin, so-called "Mother" to the laborers, appeals to Stark for the people. Stark refuses. She recalls her early romance with him which left a scar upon her heart. Her husband had lost his life in the mills through Stark's inhumanity. A committee of infuriated laborers attacks Stark's home. Mary Martin pleads with Stark to accede to their demands and thus prevent the attack. She finally succeeds in calming the laborers. As she leaves she hands Stark a copy of Poe's "Conqueror Worm," bidding him read the poem, and reflect on the part he is playing in the Drama of Life. Mary leads the laborers away and Stark reads the poem and in a frenzied state of mind sinks into sleep, while the Tides of Time roll before his troubled mind. A group of angels led by Mimes is about to witness a drama. Finding two unborn souls. Mimes launches them upon the Sea of Life, saying that they will go to earth and enact the drama of life. The Tide of Infancy rolls in upon the Sea of Life, and the angels see the home of plenty blessed by Time with a baby boy and into the poor home comes a baby girl. The next Tide shows us Childhood. The poor girl and the rich boy are playmates, while another boy is rival for the girl's favor. The third Tide is the Tide of Youth, in which we see the triangle romance between the poor girl, the rich boy and the farmer lad. As a result of the rich boy's cunning, the girl elopes with him, and there follows a shipwreck and finally the return of the girl, who is turned from her home. Her lover, the farmer boy, saves her life and gallantly makes her his wife. The angels look on with confused emotion while Mimes points out to them the fourth incoming Tide with its struggle, in which we see the two boys starting for war, witness the harrowing scenes of the battlefield, the blowing up of a battleship and wholesale slaughter of men. In sorrow and sadness the angels look on the scene of death, as Mimes points out to them a scene of humanity. The poor boy is seen saving the life of his enemy, the rich young man, carrying him from the battlefield to safety. The fifth Tide is Ambition and shows the rich man accumulating his fortune. The poor man meets a tragic death, while his wife, the poor girl, frenzied in her grief, clambers at the door of the rich man. Stark, who finally gives her bread which she throws back through his window. The angels look on in sorrow as they see the lonely woman prostrate on the grave of her husband. The sixth Tide is Success, and shows us Edmund Stark and Mary Martin as they were at the beginning of the drama. We learn what Success is in ideal and in fact. The last Tide is second childhood, and shows the closing hours of life for the two actors. The death of Mary, surrounded by all that makes unselfishness beautiful. Edmund Stark, driven to a miserable end by his greed, unable to swallow a drop of water. Mimes announces to the angels that the drama they have seen covers eighty earth years, to them a passing scene, and then points to the stream on which are seen returning the principals of the drama the boat guided by Father Time. Mary Martin, an angel in white, joins the happy group while all are stricken with horror as Edmund Stark appears bearing his flaming burden to the edge of a precipice from which he casts himself in despair into the flames of hell Edmund Stark suddenly awakens finding himself with the book in his hand just as Mary had left him. He springs to the window; his works are in flames. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less

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Name	Known for
Mary Nash Mary Martin - in the Five Ages of Woman Mary Martin - in the Five Ages of Woman See fewer	The Philadelphia Story (1940)
Harmon MacGregor Edmund Stark Edmund Stark See fewer	The Dancing Cheat (1924)
T. Morse Koupal Leland Grey Leland Grey See fewer	Out of the Fog (1919)
John Reinhardt Ezra Stark (as John Reinhard) Ezra Stark (as John Reinhard) See fewer	Feathertop (1916)
George T. Clark Mimes Mimes See fewer	Tides of Time (1915)
Fritz Orlamond Mr. Martin - Mary's Father Mr. Martin - Mary's Father See fewer	The Amateur Iceman (1912)
Madge Orlamond Mrs. Martin - Mary's Mother Mrs. Martin - Mary's Mother See fewer	The Amazing Woman (1920)
James Levering Father Time Father Time See fewer	Kidnapped (II) (1917)
Willie Gibbons Boy Time Boy Time See fewer	The Detective's Santa Claus (1913)