Better Times (film)

Better Times is a 1919 American silent drama film directed by King Vidor. The survival status of the film is classified as unknown, which suggests that it is a lost film.

Nancy, finally spurred into action by lines printed on a calendar, takes an ancient automobile used in the hotels glory days and takes a stand at the train depot. Her one and only passenger is Spike Macauley, champion pinch hitter for a baseball team, who partly for pity and partly for a lark accompanies the girl. Through Spikes advertisement of the culinary department among the summer boarders of the Majestic, the laters guests are soon transferred to Nancys care. A sudden telegram causes Spike to leave for the city, which leaves Nancy, who believes he has gone to see his sweetheart, sad.In the days that follow, tragedy hits when Ezra gambles away his life savings and the hotel and then commits suicide. Nancy, using the insurance money from her father, goes to boarding school. While there she writes pretend love letters to herself from a famous ball player whom she only knows as Peter, make believing to have a sweetheart. This leads to a distressing situation, not anticipated by Nancy, when she is entertained at a box party at a ball game with expectations that she will meet her lover. However, when she looks and sees that Peter Butler and Spike are one and the same, and jumps onto the field with joy. ........

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