This 11 minute offering does not arouse any curiosity or provoke any response in the viewer, except boredom. It has no personality, no flavour, no vibe, no attitude. The material is unintrusive, horizontal and lethargic. At no point in the story at all was I invited to engage with the characters. Everything that is wrong with a short film is here in this project. The 35 year old D.W. Griffith does not build up a relationship between his audience and his characters. The story is detached, aloof and distant. There is no intimacy in the film whatsoever, alienating audiences in their seats. It needs interplay between characters, story and audience.
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Not so strong as most of the Biograph productions
deickemeyer18 February 2015
A drama of considerable power which tells an interesting love story, though perhaps one may be permitted to say that it is not so strong as most of the Biograph productions. It tells of the love of a newspaper artist for a dancing girl, and exhibits a strongly dramatic picture when he discovers the truth regarding her occupation; but she convinces him of her purity and sincerity and they are married. Visible evidence is afforded afterward that in this instance, at least, the marriage was happy. While it is not a great film, it is well acted and the photography is clear and the situations are satisfactorily worked out. The film ends happily, which is an important point in pleasing the public. - The Moving Picture World, January 22, 1910
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