This exceptionally well-chosen title strikingly denotes the climax of the story. One of the chief points of the play is the bringing out of the train of evils following the reduction of workmen's pay by a weak husband to gratify the vanity of an ambitious and heartless woman, who insists that her husband must purchase a certain mansion and suggests the cut in pay. There are some strong situations in the picture. A careless lineman, in the employ of the husband, at work on a pole drops a hammer upon the head of a child, who is removed to the hospital for an operation. The men decide to strike against the reduction in pay. The father of the child, doubly angered against his employer by reason of the accident to his child, with his own hand cuts the wires that supply light to the city. The "light fails" in the operating room of the hospital just at the crucial point of the operation on the child's skull. The little one passes away. Miss Rose Tapley as the wife of the capitalist succeeds in her disagreeable part. Phillips, Johnson, Morey, Mrs. Gordon and Adele De Garde all are good. - The Moving Picture World, June 29, 1912
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