The False Part (1916)

• 74%
• 1916
• Drama
• William Worthington
• Herbert Rawlinson
• Agnes Vernon
• Jack Holt

This story deals with moving picture life, much of the locale being around Universal City. Herbert Rawlinson, played by himself, is introduced in his dressing room and is shown later doing the usual day's work on the stage. One of his many admirers, with her mother, visits the studio on this particular day. And in her tour of the grounds, finds Rawlinson's set, where her admiration for her favorite is shown. Rawlinson also is impressed with the young lady. Later the mother, becoming suspicious, happens on a photograph of Rawlinson in the daughter's desk and through worry over her daughter's infatuation chances a phone call to Rawlinson, which results in an agreement between the two to disillusion the daughter. A plan is agreed upon and Rawlinson is to dine with the Moore family the following day. This takes place and Rawlinson on his arrival at the Moore home is greatly surprised to find the girl who so impressed him at the studio the day before. Nevertheless he is forced by his agreement to carry out his idea and through ill manners, etc., thoroughly disgusts the girl, with the result that she is broken-hearted at his departure. On his arrival home, at his apartments, his regret at having played the false part manifests itself in a letter to the mother, while she, at the same time, has also decided to write him, telling him of her regret at the result of their plan. The two letters arrive at their respective destinations the next morning, with the result that a phone call from Rawlinson to the daughter arranges a meeting in the Moore gardens and all ends well.