The School Teacher and the Waif

The School Teacher and the Waif (1912)

Drama

Nora, the waif, is forced to attend school. She warms to her teacher for the way that he defends her against the taunts of some of the students, but when she's made to wear a dunce cap, she flees the schoolhouse in shame. Unsupervised by her alcoholic father, Nora becomes a determined truant, wandering the town during school hours. There she catches the attention of a huckster, who convinces her that they will run away and be married. The schoolmaster, meanwhile, preoccupied by Nora's absence, leaves his other students to go find her. He encounters her at a crossroads, being spirited away by the huckster, and calls the man's bluff by saying that he'll find them a minister.

Director: D.W. Griffith

Casts

	Edwin August as The School Teacher
	Mary Pickford as Nora, the Waif
	Charles Hill Mailes as Nora's Father
	Bert Hendler as A Street Fakir
	Claire McDowell as The Street Fakir's Sweetheart
	William A. Carroll as The Street Fakir's Assistant
	Robert Harron as Schoolboy
	Kate Bruce as
	Josephine Crowell as
	Ella Hall as Schoolgirl (unconfirmed)
	Grace Henderson as A Mother
	Mae Marsh as Schoolgirl
	Frank Opperman as At the Bee
	Alfred Paget as At the Bee
	Jack Pickford as Extra
	Antrim Short as Student (uncredited)

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