Moving Picture News (1911) . VING PICTURE NEWS THE LITTLE STOCKINGThe Imp Christmas Story It is not an easy :hing to produce a book, a play, or a pic-ture around the subject of Christmas, which while conformingto the needs of the season is yet fresh, convincing and satis-fying. But the Imp Companj^ have done this. Christmas is the childrens feast and moving picturestory produced at that season of the year must go straight tothe hearts and minds of the little ones, while at the same timeit passes the critical test of the grown-ups. This is what theImp picture, The Little Stocking, does. Li
Moving Picture News (1911) . VING PICTURE NEWS THE LITTLE STOCKINGThe Imp Christmas Story It is not an easy :hing to produce a book, a play, or a pic-ture around the subject of Christmas, which while conformingto the needs of the season is yet fresh, convincing and satis-fying. But the Imp Companj^ have done this. Christmas is the childrens feast and moving picturestory produced at that season of the year must go straight tothe hearts and minds of the little ones, while at the same timeit passes the critical test of the grown-ups. This is what theImp picture, The Little Stocking, does. Like all Imp suc-cesses, the story is clear and simple. Jim decides to leave theEast for the Western mines in search of fortune, leaving hiswife and little child behind. He takes with him a stocking,which unknown to him, has been placed in his grip by hislittle girl, ^yhen he reaches his destination in Arizona, hemeets an old friend. The two chum in and after good wishesfrom the rough but good-natured miners, they set out upon. their expedition. Crossing a dismal desert, Jim succumbsand dies. It afterward devolves upon his friend to write toJims wife, telling her she is a widow. ^Misfortune of a worse kind befalls the young widow andher child. She takes to dressmaking for a living, but beingunable to make ends meet is threatened to be dispossessedby her hard-hearted landlord. Meanwhile, out in Arizona the little stocking has been dis-covered by Jims friends, and they good-naturedly decide tofill it and to commission Jims particular chum to personallycarry it to the widow. This the good-hearted fellow purchases some toys for the child on the way and arrivesin the widows home just in time to pay the landlord andmake the widow and her child happy. The ending of the story is particularly happy. Jims friendsmilingly accepts the widows thanks and goes home, it is tobe supposed to Arizona, to modestly tell his friends whathe has done. He does not stay behind, fall in love with t
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