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A delightful burlesque of all the melodramas of yesteryear to which a high class comedy situation lends a world of fun. The audience laughed with whole-souled volume and the reviewer is still laughing. A young and romantic Miss in love learns that her father's farm is mortgaged. She falls asleep and then the melodramas, from "The Two Orphans" down, begin. She has her part in every scene, is the heroine, loved by the hero, a country boy friend of hers, and pursued by the villain and villainess, people she knew. And how it is acted! Mary Fuller takes the part. One of the managers of the theater came to where the reviewer sat and complimented the picture and this player's work especially. Wm. West is the farmer. The man who holds the mortgage, in the dream, the villain, is James Gordon. His daughter, in the dream the villainess, is Laura Sawyer, and the country boy, hero in the dream, is Yale Benner. It is a very commendable picture; but to appreciate it, one needs to have seen melodramas or moving pictures of melodramas. - The Moving Picture World, January 6, 1912