If a dark and beautiful face would alone make one a picture of tragedy, Adrienne Kroell would be a very Medea. It is no great matter to her that she isn't for she has good abilities as an actress, even though she cannot at present rise to the magnificent heights needed for this particular picture. In its lower strata she walks securely and is an appealing figure in her role, an unsuccessful artist. On the other side of the picture is James Fowler, the son of a rich merchant, who has been disinherited because he, too, will paint, "daub," his father calls it. These two are brought together by a common interest, the prize offered for a painting of Tragedy. The incidents that lead up to their meeting and to the painting of the girl by the man are only fairly convincing, but have been carefully made by Director Hardee Kirkland and the whole is beautifully photographed. Lillian Leighton has an interesting part as a charitable Irish woman; she acts so well that one can't always recognize her in her different roles. Ethel M. Parsons deserves more credit for her freshly imagined situation and for her story's one big scene than for marked skill in dramatic construction. She hasn't thought up inevitable things, but seems to have taken the first incidents that suggested themselves. - The Moving Picture World, February 15, 1913
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