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  • Bertha's Mission (1911)
  • Short | Comedy, Romance, Short
Bertha's Mission (1911)
Short | Comedy, Romance, Short
Bertha is a young lady with grand aspirations for high social and moral reform. She attends a lecture on the "ethics" of life and is inspired with the lecturer's ideas. She starts out in search of an opportunity to do goo. She comes across...See moreBertha is a young lady with grand aspirations for high social and moral reform. She attends a lecture on the "ethics" of life and is inspired with the lecturer's ideas. She starts out in search of an opportunity to do goo. She comes across some urchins who molest a little girl and spill her pail of milk. Bertha talks to them and comforts the little girl. The girl's mother rushes from the house, whips her daughter for the mishap to the milk. Bertha lectures the woman and hands her a leaflet, the woman turns on Bertha, abuses her and tells her she is no lady. The woman's husband takes a hand in the matter and tells his wife that she is wrong, the wife and the husband get into a squabble and come to blows. Bertha's first attempt at reform is a rank failure. Her second is a worse one; entering a pawnshop she tries to interest the pawnbroker in her mission, while she is talking to him the police enter to arrest a man who is in the shop and who has just offered for pawn some stolen jewelry; to escape detection she slips the jewelry into Bertha's coat pocket, which is found there by the police and she is taken into custody in tears and locked up in a cell. She sends for her intended and he comes to her assistance, she is released at once and promises she will give up her mission and devote her time and attention to doing something in which she can be more useful and successful. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less
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Updated Mar 3, 1911
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Mar 3, 1911 (United States)

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