Biography of Sydney Newton FOLKER
[Ref. Q.5]
Title : | Vi of Smith's Alley |
Writer : | Charles Barnett |
Production : | Broadwest Film Company |
Producer : | |
Director : | Walter West |
Studios : | |
Released : | July 1921 |
Distributor : | Walturdaw Company Limited |
Cast : | Violet Hopson as Vi Jeffries |
Cameron Carr as Sydney Baxter | |
George Foley as Nathaniel Baxter | |
Sydney Folker as Bill Saunders (Vi's lover) | |
Amy Verity as Eileen Boston | |
Peter Upcher as Reggie Drew | |
Sydney Frayne as Teddy | |
Storyline : | As a result of an accident in the jam factory in which she was one of the hands, Violet Jeffries is transferred, by the good offices of Eileen Boston, |
to the domestic staff of the Boston household. She soon becomes the confidant of Eileen, who is being forced by her father to marry his manager, Sydney Baxter, | |
whereas she wants to marry Reggie Drew. Her father makes a will by which Baxter becomes the heir if she does not marry him, but Eileen elopes with Reggie. | |
Then Vi discoveres that Baxter is the father of the child of a poor woman who died as a result of the neglect of the husband who deserted her. When Boston hears of | |
this he immediately takes steps to alter his will. That same night, Baxter attempts to take the life of Boston, but Vi throws herself in the way and receives the shot, | |
from the effects of which it takes some weeks for her to recover. In the meantime, Eileen has been reconciled to her father. | |
Information : | Violet Hopson to act in Kinematograph Weekly - 7 April 1921 |
Violet Hopson attracts the crowds in Kinematograph Weekly - 28 April 1921 | |
Photograph of Violet Hopson in Sunday Pictorial - 1 May 1921 | |
Filming in Keiller's factory in The Bioscope - 12 May 1921 | |
Mention of Sydney's work in Kinematograph Weekly - 2 June 1921 | |
Films viewed in India in The Era - 8 June 1921 | |
Violet Hopson on location in The Weekly Dispatch - 19 June 1921 | |
List of films by Broadwest in The Bioscope - 14 July 1921 | |
Violet Hopson praised in The Stage - 21 July 1921 | |
Trade showings in Birmingham in Kinematograph Weekly - 6 October 1921 | |
Photograph of Violet Hopson in The Illustrated Leicester Chronicle - 23 July 1921 | |
Production details and photograph in Kinematograph Weekly - 29 September 1921 | |
Bookings good in The Bioscope - 29 September 1921 | |
Good review in Kinematograph Weekly - 29 September 1921 | |
Location details in Pictures and Picturegoer - October 1922 | |
Notes : | Six reel film. |
Some scenes filmed in Keiller's jam factory in Scotland. |