The Spreading Dawn

The Spreading Dawn (1917)

DramaRomance

Georgina asks permission from her old aunt, Patricia Mercer Vanderpyl, to marry Capt. Nugent before his departure for France. Patricia refuses and, in reply to Georgina's questioning, gives her a diary from her own girlhood to read. The diary unfolds the story of Patricia's marriage to soldier Anthony Vanderpyl. Returning on furlough after the outbreak of the Civil War, Anthony suddenly leaves Patricia to visit Mrs. Le Roy, an old flame, and is killed by her jealous husband. Positive that Anthony had been unfaithful to her, Patricia refuses to open the letter that her husband sent her on the day of his death. Georgina now opens it and discovers that Anthony had gone to Mrs. Le Roy to end the affair that his brother Bentley was having with her. With this revelation, Patricia sanctions her niece's marriage, then dies, joining Anthony in "the spreading dawn".

Director: Laurence Trimble

Casts

	Jane Cowl as Patricia Mercer Vanderpyl
	Orme Caldara as Anthony Vanderpyl
	Harry Spingler as Bentley Vanderpyl
	Florence Billings as Mrs. Cornelia Le Roy
	Henry Stephenson as Mr. LeRoy
	Alice Chapin as Mrs. Mercer
	Helena Blair as Young Lizzie
	Cecil Owen as Colonel Lee
	Mabel Ballin as Georgina Vanderpyl
	Edmund Lowe as Captain Lewis Nugent
	Edith McAlpin as Old Lizzie

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