Lena Rivers (1910) Online
At the opening of the play, Granny Nichols' only daughter is leaving the farm to go to the city in search of employment. We next find her in the city, married to a wealthy man who has forbidden her to make their marriage public as he is afraid his family will object. One day, after a year of happy married life, the husband leaves his wife and baby daughter to go downtown on business. Through a case of mistaken identity, he is arrested and before he can prove his innocence, to the satisfaction of the police, his wife, believing him to have deserted her, takes her baby and returns to her mother. The husband, upon regaining his freedom and returning home, finds only a note from his wife saying that he will never see her or the baby again. He mourns his loved ones as dead, thinking that his wife left him contemplating the death of herself and her child. The mother and child return to the farm and there, with her dying breath the mother entrusts baby Lena to the care of Granny Nichols. ...
| Cast overview: | |||
 | Violet Heming | ||
 | Anna Rosemond | ||
 | Frank Hall Crane | - | (as Frank H. Crane) |