A story of a downward career in a young woman's case which ends in a low dive, with madness and death in a hospital. So far as the technical quality and the acting are concerned, this picture need not be criticized. But sometimes as one sees these pictures one wonders to what purpose they are made. They are not entertaining, and the chances are very strongly against anyone who has begun such a career being turned back by a reproduction of the probable end in a motion picture. Often it seems like a waste of effort. The same money and time and ability bestowed upon a picture that would amuse the audience would do more good in that direction. at least, and it is probable that the moral influence would be quite as great. – The Moving Picture World, December 11, 1909