Cecilia of the Pink Roses

As described in a film magazine, Cecilia's parents live very humbly in a tenement. The father is an inventive bricklayer but can scarcely pay the expenses incident for the illness of the dying mother Mary. After her death, all the cares fall on «Celie,» who tries to mother the brother and care for her father. Father McGowan, the priest of the parish, is interested in the family and helps the father to sell an invention to his advantage. Excerpt: «The Madden flat was hot and the smell of frying potatoes filled it. Two or three flies buzzed tirelessly here and there, now and again landing with sticky clingings on a small boy of four who screamed with their advent.»