This picture lacks the artistic photography that it needs; good photography seems scarcer than some months ago and this is a pity, for its effect on the impression given to even the most ignorant spectator is marked. This picture deals with the effect of music on people, even on a wild mob, to make them reverent. In one or two scenes it succeeds in making us feel the music by sight alone, which is something; but there is too much that reminds one of the producer's troubles in making the picture and it seems artificial. It was plain that the girl at the organ bent awkwardly down to let the light shine upon her face. There was another woman, in the mob, whose lack of acting spoiled one whole scene. Perhaps Colin Campbell, the producer, didn't give Lanier Bartlett's scenario the best chance of making good; it has possibilities. Thomas Santschi, as the priest, is just what was wanted; Bessie Eyton, as the motherless orphan who grows up to play so powerfully, makes a very strong appeal in the center of the picture. We didn't recognize Camille Astor in the old Mexican woman that she plays so well. Wheeler Oakman and Eddie James play two Spanish dons. - The Moving Picture World, January 11, 1913
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