Le chiffonnier de Paris

A special and feature offering in three parts from the novel by Felix Pyat. We find it a commendable picture. The story is very fair and the leading character in it, Father John, will make a strong appeal. Its main theme is the love story of his adopted daughter and, in quality it reminds one of Eugene Sue's "The Mysteries of Paris," but it is not on so big a scale. It is elaborate, yet clear enough and keeps the mind decidedly interested, so much so that it is with pleasant surprise that, at the end, we find it taking up threads that we had forgotten and rounding out its design. The ragpicker, in the opening, sees a rough character kill and rob a bank messenger and because he is too drunk to save him he adopts the man's daughter, who grows up to be a very pretty girl and is doing dressmaking for the daughter of a rich banker. The rag man doesn't know that this banker is the criminal, but we are let into the secret. He is soon in trouble and wants his daughter to marry a rich young man who later sees and falls in love with the ragpicker's daughter. The banker's daughter has made a secret marriage and has had a child, which is the center of the struggle between the banker's evil ambition and what may be termed the girl's good angel over the desirable youth. Many interesting characters are introduced. The playing is, especially in the ragpicker and his daughter and in the rich, evil banker, full of distinction. The staging is very good. - The Moving Picture World, October 18, 1913