Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Town of Nazareth


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The result was speedy keep. Nomination withdrawn with no remaining deletion proposals. (non-admin closure) Atlantic306 (talk) 23:13, 16 April 2023 (UTC)

The Town of Nazareth

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Does not appear notable, tagged in March 2023. Nothing found in a BEFORE Donald D23   talk to me  00:41, 14 April 2023 (UTC) Keep per the significant coverage in multiple independent reliable sources.  The journal article was published in 1914, so is in the Public domain. The journal article notes: "The Town of Nazareth (American), March 30.—A two-part offering that would have been better in one reel. The theme is a double love story, of a poet who lost in love, and of the son of the girl he loved who, refusing the poet, married a dyer of the Vermont village, Nazreth. The poet becomes famous; the dyer, without good reason, accounts himself a failure and runs away and dies. How the son is sent to Harvard and after attempting to make good in the city comes home and makes business come to him is the chief interest in the second reel. There are crude things in it a-plenty and good, things, too. The atmosphere of the country town makes the story interesting. The acting is fair and the photography acceptable. A fair offering; a bit above the commercial plane."  The review was published in 1914, so is in the Public domain. The review notes: ""The Town of Nazareth." —American. This is Emerson's mouse trap theory done into pictures. The young man who goes to seek his fortune in the city is called back by his mother's grief at his absence. So he returns to his native village and conducts the paternal business of cleaning and dyeing, discovering a formula for a color process that is unique and greatly prized; so much so, in fact, that it draws a great cloth manufacturer to the lad's small shop with an offer of a splendid position in his works. The cloth manufacturer has a daughter, too, whom the young man has met before and already fallen in love with, so the affair is arranged very happily and profiably for every one."  The article was published in 1914, so is in the Public domain. The article notes: "The Town of Nazareth (2 parts—Mar. 30)—Rosney, as a young man, is jilted by the girl he loves, in favor of another. As years roll by he keeps an ever watchful eye over the welfare of the girl, Mary, at the same time achieving a success that brings him to the attention of the outside world. When Mary's husband, failing to win success in the town, and losing the money saved for his son, Frank's college education, complains that no success can be won in Nazareth, and plans to go to the city. Rosney remembers the old saying, 'Can anything good come out of Nazareth,' and attempts to dissuade him. He fails. Walter, the husband, sneaks away and is not heard from. Rosney, unbeknown to Mary, succeeds in replacing the missing college money, and her grief is tempered by the knowledge that Frank will get his college education. Frank returns from college and takes up some experiments which results in the discovery of a dyeing process much desired by Wilson, a large manufacturer of cloth. Frank, of course, does not know the value of his discovery, nor is Wilson aware of it, but Wilson visits Rosney with his daughter, Miriam, and an attachment springs up between Miriam and Frank. At this time definite news of the disgraceful death of her husband is brought to Mary, and the shock results in a serious illness. Just as she is getting better Miriam foolishly dares Frank to come to the city and make good. He takes the dare and leaves against his mother's pleas—an additional shock that brings a relapse. Frank, in the city with Miriam, receives word of his mother's condition and has his eyes opened to his selfishness, and, renouncing Miriam, he hurries home. Rosney, sensing Frank's trouble, explains to him through the immortal 'mousetrap,' saying he can win success in Nazareth as well as elsewhere, and, sure enough, a coat of Miriam's, left to be dyed, reveals to Wilson the existence of some better process. The threads are quickly gathered together, even Rosney receiving his reward when after years Mary looks up in his eyes with a new and greater love than she had ever known before.'" Less significant coverage:  The article was published in 1914, so is in the Public domain. The article notes: "Now that the American Film Co. has turned out "The Cricket on the Hearth" under its Flying A trademark, it's going to make another of Charles Dickens' masterpieces into movies, having placed "The Old Curiosity Shop" in camera rehearsal. The Flying A will release Marc Edmund Jones dramatic photoplay, "The Town of Nazareth," March 30 with Edward Coxen, Winifred Greenwood, George Field and Charlotte Burton in the principal roles."  The book notes: "The Town of Nazareth. 1914-03-22. L: 2R. P: American. A: Marc Edmund Jones. C: Winnifred Greenwood, Ed Coxen, George Field, Jean Durrell, William Bertram, Charlotte Burton, Albert Cavens." </ol></li> </ol>There is sufficient coverage in reliable sources to allow The Town of Nazareth to pass Notability, which requires "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject". Cunard (talk) 08:45, 16 April 2023 (UTC)
 * <small class="delsort-notice">Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Film and United States of America.  Donald D23   talk to me  00:41, 14 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Keep. The Moving Picture World has a long plot summary and a review (Apr 4, 1914) (both quoted on the IMdb page, fwiw), regretting the fact that the film was in two reels. The two reels are advertised here. Seems notable with enough material for a  page.—  MY, OH, MY ! 22:45, 15 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Withdrawn per new citations by Cunard Donald D23   talk to me  18:57, 16 April 2023 (UTC)

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