A picture likely to be popular because of its novelty, but as a story rather than as a comedy. The humor doesn't seem quite spontaneous. There is a mighty good idea in it. Sammy can play on the pipe like a very Orpheus; every one who hears must dance. That's the difficulty; no one can work while he's around and he is always in trouble. At length he lands on a South Sea island where they like his music too well, so he escapes to the jungle and finds a congenial spirit in an elephant, who carries him around and, in hours of relaxation, dances to his tunes. The subject was hardly one to be treated as a fantastic yarn such as a sailor would tell. It is at heart poetic and has an atmosphere inimical to such scenes as that in which the fat, darky chieftainess makes love to Sammy. It would have been better if all of it had been a little coarse or all had been poetical; with two aims, it doesn't hit anyone very hard. Thomas Santschi plays the lead. Bessy Eyton, appearing for a moment, does the best work in it. Besides these, there are in the cast, Eugenie Besserer, Lillian Hayward, George Hernandes (the cannibal queen), and Bunny Feeham. That restaurant scene is very well handled. Lanier Bartell wrote the scenario, which Colin Campbell produced. - The Moving Picture World, January 4, 1913
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