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This picture is one of those done by the Vitagraph Globe Trotters. The scenes were taken in Venice. Pietro, a police spy (James Young) desires to marry Nina (Clara Kimball Young) daughter of Beppo, a cobbler (Wm. V. Ranous). Nina loves Count Guilio (Maurice Costello), her father's landlord, and her love is returned. Pietro, under false colors of friendship, gets the Count to take him to a secret meeting of socialists. The count makes an incendiary speech and Pietro reports him to the police, and Guilio is ordered banished, but hides away. Pietro then demands Nina's hand from Beppo and when the old man refuses he has him put in prison for refusing to reveal Guilio's whereabouts. Nina makes a living selling flowers for three years, after which time there is a change of administration and the fugitive and prisoner are pardoned. The story is well told, considering the difficulties of making such a picture in a foreign country. There are several mob scenes, acted by Italians, that are well handled, as well as some bits between native characters and principals. The results of the scenes are remarkably smooth when one realizes that two languages were used in most of them. As a picture it is well able to hold its own in a program of others taken under more favorable circumstances. - The Moving Picture World, August 16, 1913