Task: Story Composition
Input (English): Fact1: plot of film As described in is as follows film magazine, Fact2: Pitts has succeeded gambler and procrastinator in diverting trade from himself to Si Whittaker, Fact3: Nancy takes ancient automobile used in hotel 's glory days finally spurred into action by lines printed on calendar, Fact4: Spike Macauley partly for pity and partly for accompanies girl lark, Fact5: later 's guests Through are transferred to Nancy 's care Spike 's advertisement of culinary department among summer boarders of Majestic
Output (English): As described in a film magazine, the plot of the film is as follows. A western Pennsylvania town has two hotels that have seen better days. Nancy Scroggs Pitts is the neglected daughter of Ezra Scroggs McDonald, who is the chief reason no one visits his hotel, the Lakeview. A gambler and procrastinator, he has succeeded in diverting trade from himself to Si Whittaker De Vaull, proprietor of the Majestic. Nancy, finally spurred into action by lines printed on a calendar, takes an ancient automobile used in the hotels glory days and takes a stand at the train depot. Her one and only passenger is Spike Macauley, champion pinch hitter for a baseball team, who partly for pity and partly for a lark accompanies the girl. Through Spikes advertisement of the culinary department among the summer boarders of the Majestic, the laters guests are soon transferred to Nancys care. A sudden telegram causes Spike to leave for the city, which leaves Nancy, who believes he has gone to see his sweetheart, sad. In the days that follow, tragedy hits when Ezra gambles away his life savings and the hotel and then commits suicide. Nancy, using the insurance money from her father, goes to boarding school. While there she writes pretend love letters to herself from a famous ball player whom she only knows as Peter, make believing to have a sweetheart. This leads to a distressing situation, not anticipated by Nancy, when she is entertained at a box party at a ball game with expectations that she will meet her lover. However, when she looks and sees that Peter Butler and Spike are one and the same, and jumps onto the field with joy.