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How Betty Won the School
(1911) United States of America
B&W : Split-reel
Directed by (unknown)
Cast: Edith Storey [Betty Carlton], Mabel Normand [Betty’s rival], Ralph Ince [the burglar], Julia Swayne Gordon, Mrs. B.F. Clinton
The Vitagraph Company of America production; distributed by The General Film Company, Incorporated. / Released 22 August 1911. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Comedy.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? Betty Carlton, a pretty girl, is sent to a girls’ seminary. She is welcomed by all, and everything goes along merrily until one day, when they try to initiate Betty into one of their societies by blindfolding her and dropping cold, wet macaroni through her fingers. It feels so much like snakes that she dashes from the room. From now on she is ostracized. She decides to leave. While packing her trunk. She discovers a burglar climbing into a room where the other girls are having a “feed,” to which she has not been invited. All the girls scream and run away. Betty, trusting to her lariat, enters the room, captures the burglar, and is thereby made a friend of all.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 6 January 2025.
References: Fussell-Normand p. 242 : Website-IMDb.
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