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A temperance story which represents first the mastery drink may exert over a man, his successive efforts to overcome the temptation and his final mastery. Temperance sermons and lectures are, as a rule, little wanted. Yet this film possesses a fascination, difficult to describe, yet none the less vivid. One must needs follow it to the end with the closest attention, even though one may feel that it is really a disguised temperance discourse, and may, perhaps, for that reason, be repugnant in some degree. The acting is quite as good as it is in the average Kalem play, better, possibly, than some of them, because it has a degree of dramatic possibility which not all have possessed. And probably it is helped, to some extent, at least, by the suggestion of the subject. Often one's own imagination assists materially in the development of a play and adds much to its interest. - The Moving Picture World, January 15, 1910