Cy Whittaker's Ward

Cy Whittaker's Ward

Drama | Oct. 22, 1917

Returning to the village of Bayport after twenty-two years, retired sea captain Cyrus Whittaker finds the community under the power of political boss Herman Atkins. Cy opposes Atkin's choice for the position of teacher and helps to elect Miss Daws instead, thus earning the enmity of the politician. One day, a young girl named Emily Thomas arrives with a note from Sarah Oliver, a relative of Cy, explaining that the girl is the daughter of his old sweetheart and that her father is in jail and her mother dead.

Cy Whittaker's Ward

Drama | Oct. 22, 1917

Cy Whittaker's Ward
Returning to the village of Bayport after twenty-two years, retired sea captain Cyrus Whittaker finds the community under the power of political boss Herman Atkins. Cy opposes Atkin's choice for the position of teacher and helps to elect Miss Daws instead, thus earning the enmity of the politician. One day, a young girl named Emily Thomas arrives with a note from Sarah Oliver, a relative of Cy, explaining that the girl is the daughter of his old sweetheart and that her father is in jail and her mother dead.
Producers Perfection Pictures, Edison Company
Original title Cy Whittaker's Ward
Directors Ben Turbett
Writers Samuel Greiner

Cast

William Wadsworth

as Captain Cy Whittaker

Shirley Mason

as Emily Thomas

W. H. Burton

as Herman Atkins

Carter B. Harkness

as Richard Thomas

Mary Elizabeth Forbes

as Phoebe Daws

Emily Lorraine

as Sarah Oliver

Wallis Clark

as Bailey

Justus D. Barnes

as Simmons

Leslie Hunt

as Ase