In our opinion, the most interesting picture of the week. It seems, at the start, the same old situation. The rich man's daughter has secretly married her father's secretary and he finds it out and disowns her. Then we have the widow and her child coming home in time to thwart the designs of the man who is scheming to obtain the old man's fortune. It is apparently the same old story and yet how different, how much more humanly convincing than the best pictures of this story that we can remember. Its vitality comes from the peculiar characteristics of the persons; they are not types, but new individuals. These persons dramatically affect the narrative, the path the story takes toward its denouement, in a willful, lawless and yet entirely natural way. It seems inevitable. The interest doesn't center in any one character; it is merged in the whole. Yet the characters are very clearly cut and two of them (the child and the designing "legal adviser" of the old man) are intensely interesting studies. The man who plays this schemer seems to be a new player among the Biograph people and, if so, he is a noteworthy addition to their forces. We might add that a good player is fortunate in starting with the Biograph Company. He has a better chance of making a reputation than in most places. - The Moving Picture World, March 30, 1912
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