A park. A monument: a bust with a (devil's?) grimace. A young man takes a ring from his finger and gives it to a young woman [frame scan 1]. / Music room. A woman dances. Dissolve [frame scan 2] to a dance in a park. The man sits on a stone bench attached to a monument. The woman dances seductively [frame scan 3, 4].
Jeanpaul Goergen, Deutsche Kinemathek, 3.10.2008
The bust atop the bench might represent Pan rather than the Dark Lord; in the zoom one will note PanPipes tangled up in the filligree below the bust, though pan pipes have also been used in the context of the devil as well. This looks to me like something out of Lois Weber's work -- the metaphorical cutaway fading back into the main scene of the music room, with its bust of Wagner, to symbolize music; there are many such symbolic cutaways in The Hypocrite (1915). Also the loose and rather "improper" attire of the girl and that proposals/marriage were among Weber's major themes. This was probably made before 1918 as the stiff, high collar and short jacket were no longer fashionable by that time; only dorky guys like Will Hays continued to dress like that after. I would suggest that this may have been made as early as 1912-14.
David Lewis, 14.03.2010
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