Her Mother's Oath

A motherly, almost grandmotherly, woman carries the honors of this splendid picture. Her role is that of a mother who rules with an iron hand, who is arbitrary, self-willed. Her characterization is impressive, rugged; at times it. gets into your throat. Henry Walthall plays the strolling actor, Dorothy Gish the girl in love with him. Charles Mailes is the clergyman whose services are interrupted and who halts them to denounce and put out the man who dared to pass a note to a member of his congregation. All deserve praise. The scenes where the blind mother, her money gone, rolls up her sleeves and goes out and nearly falls into the uncovered well; later, when she again goes to the well, this time determined to end it all, but is saved by the returned couple, are full of pathos, A film to be featured. - The Moving Picture World, July 12, 1913