The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-11-06
MARY PICKFORD
in DADDY
LONG LEGS
Mothered by An Ash Car
and Reared On a Whole
sale Plan
THE CAST

THE CAST
Mary Pickford Jerusha Abbott
Milia Davenport Mrs. Lippett
Miss Percy Haswell Miss Pritchard
Fay Lemport Angelina Wyckoff
Mahlon Hamilton Jarvis Pendleton
Lillian Langdon Mrs. Pendleton
Betty Bouton Julia Pendleton
Audrey Chapman Sally Mcbride
Marshall A. Neilan Jimmie Mcbride
Carrie Clarke Warde Mrs. Semple
Judy Abbott does not have low
ing parents, kind friends and a
pleasant home like other little girls.
She lives in q big orphan asylum
where things move by machinery,
where children are kissed on the
Wholesale plan, where the head ma
tron is a tyrant in skirts, the trustees
are grabbed and none too interested,
and where the loving interest which
children most need for their develop
nert and happiness is completely alb
sent.
MOTHERED BY AN ASH CAN
Judy, whose full name is Jerusha,
reached this great heartless home,
founded by a man who had made his
moley from convict labor, and who
consequently put prison discipline
into operation at the asylum, when
She was a baby. About the time 4
rich little girl named Angelica Wyck-
of was entering upon q pampered ex-
istence Judy was put into an ash can
wrapped in a few rags by someone
unknown.
thence the poor little waif was
taken to the John Grier Home For
Orphans, where she was named from
q telephone book. She got along as
best she could until the age of twelve,
when she began to be more OF less of
a personality about the home. OF a
bright sunsniny dispo- lrlon. she
gave to the little ltldcIc- ,.-out her
the warmth and hcip tic never had
gotten from Others. Oltt'. &C nurs-
ed them in THEN hines. One SEEK tot
OF three dies in her arms, and is
carried away by the mother it had
nGNcf known Oh edfl-l.
Something Of Judy's strength Of
character, and her Importance about
the asylum is seen on a certain day
when the trustees come, rs they do
every Blue Wednesday, Judy, try
ing 70 aid the matron, Mrs. Lippett, q
deceitful woman, in having the or
phans make a good showing succeeds
IN making them appear very mis-
cnievious, and herself incurs the en-
nifty of several OF the sour trustees.
Angelica Wyckof, the daughter OF
one Of them, has brought along a doll
for which a sick baby cries. The sell
i-sh pampered child, who is clad in
silks and satins contrasting pitifully
with the striped bingham in which
the waits are dressed, refuses to al
low the child to have her doll.
JUDY GETS THE DOLL, BUT
Thereupon Judy cleverly steals il
and carries it up to the baby who
gets to fondle it for a moment. Fol
this fearful deed Judy is sentenced to
have her fingers burned on a red-ho,
stove by Mrs. Lippett, "as an exam
ple". Not long after, rebelling al
the poor food which is served the or
phans, Judy instigates a "prunc
strike" The only mes who stick
are she and a funny freckled faced
little boy. They refuse prunes and
are sentenced into the yard without
food by Mrs. Lippett.
While they are there praying foI
something to eat, there is thrown
over the fence by a thief a jug Of
hard cider and some sandwiches. The
furnished children set upon these pro
visions with the result that both ac-
emulate a mild Jag. While under
its influence they do all sort OF
funny things, and in the end Judy
comes in for more attention from
Mrs. Lippett, the tryant.
In the long run Mrs. Pritchard, ono
of the trustees who is humane, begs
a new trustee, a young man of
wealth and position, to interest him
self in the bright little Judy. The
young man in question says he is not
interested in girls, but that he will
provide her with a college education.
So, with no other knowledge of her
~benefactor save the sight of his tall
shadow against a door, Judy goes to
college.
DADDY LONG LEGS" is BORN
Being intelligent, pretty and ac-
complished she gets ahead very rap
idly both in her studies and socially.
She often writes to her "Dear Daddy
Long Legs, as she calls her bene-
factor, and draws him pictures of
how she thinks he looks. These
muse Jarvis Pendleton, or Daddy
07~ Lees" and he secretly decides
thai he will meet his ward and see
VA NIX Of a girl she is.
AS she never has known him by
a}y narne he IS easily able to do this
2t 9 social event. Her work in Gro
ri2o a.l Juliet" played on the col
'c3c green, with herself as outlet"
has won her another ardent sutton,
Jimmy Mcbride, a very young col
legt man.
But now as she finds herself at the
height of happiness, with two men of
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