Now here is an intensely dramatic theme, and it is really wonderful to see with what supreme command of histrionic art the actors and actresses playing in the piece convey the varying emotions felt in that piece to the audience. Not a single point is lost, there is not a single moment's pause or obscurity. From the instant the curtain goes up the shadow of fate seems to hang over the little fellow who is doomed to die at the hands of his father. He is seen to be playing with a gun, and, when after the party have set out for the hunt, he surreptitiously escapes from the window to follow them, we have a still further premonition of his fate. The tragic moment of the play is when he is accidentally shot by his father. From thence on, through the powerful scene in the house where the parent gradually develops insanity amidst the grief of his family and has to be taken away, we rise to the loftiest height of tragic power yet seen on the moving picture stage. The remainder of the story which we have described is in the nature of a final chapter leading up to a happy denouement. - The Moving Picture World, May 15, 1909
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