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An imaginative incident founded on the life of the author of the old song makes a dramatic picture. The time, which is 1805; the setting, which is a newspaper office in Boston, with a few rural scenes to help; the characters, everything adds up to make it an unusually interesting offering. The producer has also taken care to make it seem real; it is astonishing that he didn't take a bit more care. There are several incongruities that were quite unnecessary in it. That iron pail and the modern machine-made pail weren't needed in the picture at all. Why did he put them in? An earthen jug would have done just as well. These are the only criticisms that we feel it necessary to make; the offering, aside from these, is fine. We don't know the author's name, but his work is very commendable and the story will surely hold strongly. The sets and costumes seem perfect, or almost so, and the whole is beautifully photographed. Harry Myers plays the hero. Woolworth, with intelligence; Peter Lang is just what was wanted for an easy-going old-time editor; Charles Arthur and Bartley McCullum seem typical men about town of that hard-drinking period. Mrs. Geo. Walters, the mother of the heroine, also should be mentioned and commended, as should Miss Wierman. It makes a picture more likely to be popular than most this week. - The Moving Picture World, February 8, 1913