The Play's the Thing

A two-reel picture presenting a stage tragedy that is novel enough and being well put on makes a good offering. One actor has deceived and deserted a young woman to die and she has told her brother, also an actor, the man's name. The brother, determined on revenge, secures an engagement in the same company with the man. and is not known. The situation is stated concisely and without delay, although it occupies the first reel. The scenes set it before us so that the spectator feels the emotional truth of it; looks upon it as real. The result is marked suspense. It now works up to a duel scene on the stage, preceded by a perfect double exposure vision of the dead girl by the villain. The audience understands nothing of what is really going on and the villain is killed, but so skillfully that the coroner's jury pronounces the death as accidental. Up to the death scene it is good, but there the suspense drops, and the moral tone of the story is not high. The acting is good. - The Moving Picture World, February 21, 1914