These two reels will interest throughout. They will do so in spite of the fact that there is no spectacular feature to raise this above the ordinary, although exception perhaps should be made to the short scene of the inaugural ball, which evidenced much care and expense in staging. The story is of a chief clerk of the War Department at Washington, in love with the daughter of the Mexican Ambassador, in spite of the fact that the clerk is morally certain to be without a position in less than a week by reason of the incoming administration naturally instituting changes, he proposes to the girl and is accepted. When he is notified that his job will go to another the fiancée proceeds to bribe his successor, and the first day in office of the latter is his last. The old chief clerk is reinstated for the four years. The story is not always logical; doubtless, also, it will be unpopular among the widely scattered servants of Uncle Sam. Charles Clary has the role of the old clerk and William Stowell that of the incoming official. Both do good work. Adrienne Kroell by her impersonation of the Ambassador's daughter will please her audiences. Hardee Kirkland produced the picture. - The Moving Picture World, April 19, 1913
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