Ann

Richard Ridgely has written a pleasing picture of sentiment around Ann, a girl who, in the home of her very strict parents, suffers a perpetual Sabbath. The development of the situation is conventional, but its parts are skillfully put together to make it emotionally effective when the father's eyes are opened and his he'art softened. To do this the author has introduced a traveling sheet music salesman, who entices Ann to the city, where happily she is guarded from him by an ex-burlesque queen and in the end brought home to her father's arms. Mabel Trunnelle plays Ann; Charles Ogle, her father; Mrs. C.J. Williams, her mother. On the other side of the picture is the salesman, Yale Benner, and the good angel. Mrs. Bechtel. Walter Edwin is the producer and has made some beautiful sets and carried his story clearly. He might have chosen more convincing backgrounds; that trolley car didn't go well in such a story, that would have been more natural in a truly rural neighborhood. - The Moving Picture World, March 15, 1913