A very much alive and very interesting situation makes this picture affecting. We have seen this situation before, many times, when it was dead. It is this: A young man marries a chorus girl whom his father distrusts, and because of it is disinherited. Slowly the older and younger people are reunited. Just by itself, few care for that story any longer; nearly everyone knows how it will end. Yet this is different and we are deeply interested. Why? Simply because this chorus girl isn't a formula; she's a real, live human being, just like ourselves, and we can't help being interested. Whenever, in any kind of art, characters become real truly, the spectator lives the story in himself by imagination. That's why we are interested. It's a worthy picture. - The Moving Picture World, November 25, 1911
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