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A very large audience received this fine, human picture with that undemonstrative but most emphatic applause, a slight rumbling of feet. It is, in truth, a tip-top offering and one that we can heartily commend for audiences everywhere. The setting gives us little glimpses of a ranch home and also some broad, sweeping views of a rolling cattle range country, wild and lonely. The action, though it is typical of Western life, has nothing rough; there is no crime, no shooting, no cowboys even in it, except in the distance. It concerns itself wholly with quiet human things and its interest, at every turn, comes from character and not from accident. Marked feeling for character is shown by the acting, and the wider backgrounds show that sense of locality that makes them seem contiguous in the picture, makes the backgrounds in the different scenes hook on to each other. Edith, the Eastern girl and heroine, is Phyllis Gordon, who ideally fills the part. Herbert Rawlinson plays opposite to her a manly young Westerner who has been misunderstood. Harry Ennis and Mrs. Shaw play Edith's parents. Mrs. Shaw has a good part and does very fine work. Camille Astor, Bessie Eyton and Fcrnandes Galvcs also have parts. Marie Evans is the authoress and Hobart Bosworth produced it. - The Moving Picture World, October 26, 1912