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This is a character comedy and not a formal Western. There is no scenery in it; it is a hotel lobby, parlor car, automobile and city picture, and relates the comic experiences of a breezy young man who had made a big roll of greenbacks and a bank account of startling size. He fell in love with a pretty hotel stenographer who was possessed of originality and humor. How he fell in love, scraped acquaintance, proposed and was sent to Chicago to ask Papa is told freshly and is very amusing, as are his adventures on the Pullman. A "sharp" traveler learned of his roll and tried to get it. This sharper rapped, in telegraph alphabet, a message on a glass to the girls who were his accomplices. The letters jumped up on the wall and spelled out, "He has a big roll; it's easy," but the kid understood. The way Papa was compelled to give consent to the wedding is not new, but serves to end the comedy. The fun comes almost wholly from the Kid, who does very well. The stenographer was well chosen and does creditably. It is a good, amusing comedy. - The Moving Picture World, November 4, 1911