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A good, strong offering. It is a freshly interesting, psychological study of theatrical people; but especially of one actress who, and this is most unusual in stories or in pictures, is convincingly made to seem, by her mental make-up and her whole experience, to be a true genius. It is she who sees the "phantoms" and who, at the end, falls into a beatific insanity in which her whole life is phantoms. This fate is dramatically effective, as it is made to come to her through a door left open in her own character. Her flighty impetuousness makes the situation by making her write a crazy letter to her lover; she was jealous of the time he gave to his dying mother. So her romance is nipped and. in spite of her brilliant success as an actress, it preys on her mind until she goes mad The concomitant human things needed to make it a story and give it a habitation in real life are not wanting and we commend the picture as a desirable offering to the public. This leading character and the stage director are finely acted; but every character m the picture has been made life-like and interesting in themselves. W.E. Wmg, the author, surely deserves high praise, and so do the producer and every one concerned. - The Moving Picture World, November 22, 1913