Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms

A picture illustrating one. of Thomas Moore's songs by the same name. It was accompanied very sleepily by the little pianist and as far as we can know, the music killed the picture. It is a good melodrama, but it isn't a lyric photoplay, not such a one as "Silver Threads Among the Gold" was. That picture was a masterpiece. The Edison Company did it. Would they would make another. As a melodrama it has many excellent things, a good story being not the least of them, but there is nothing in it that equals the work of Miss Laura Sawyer, as Helen Van Worth, the villainess. That is sheer art, a perfect picture of vindictive contempt. We seldom see anything in pictures so good. The picture shows us the love story of an artist (Benjamin Wilson plays him well), and a model (Bessie Learn is very acceptable in this part). Helen Van Worth (Laura Sawyer) is the rich woman who also loves the artist, and, from jealousy, comes very near separating the true lovers forever, but they meet again. Beside well designed and clearly articulated scenes it has excellent photography. We may add that the better companies are not showing in pictures bad paintings anymore. The work on the easel before the painter in this picture is a very good copy of a well-known work of art. The whole is an excellent offering. - The Moving Picture World, September 21, 1912