Cinderella pictures have from the start an advantage over others in one of the best situations possible. But in comparison with others of its kind, this very improbable and not very carefully made story of an English nobleman and an American mamma with two daughters and a stepdaughter suffers. One scene seems quite carelessly made. It shows the Cinderella (Clara K. Young), slipshodly dressed, coming into a room where her mother and sisters, in stylish clothes, are seated. We haven't been prepared by any insight into her state of mind regarding her short skirt, and for a moment she seems slovenly and is cheapened. Lord Browning's attitude toward the girls (he had merely heard about them as Americans) is super-romantic, and Cinderella is also cheapened by her attitude toward him, whom she has also only heard of. The authoress is Josephine W. Crawford, and the producer, Van Dyke Brooke. Maurice Costello is Lord Browning, Julia S. Gordon is the American mamma, Flora Finch the oldest, and Leah Baird the middle daughter. Van Dyke Brooke is the fisherman. - The Moving Picture World, November 30, 1912
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