A picture dealing with Ghetto life, its problems and customs. It illustrates the work of the matrimonial broker, the schatchen. The characters, with one exception, are not Jewish nor like Jews; but this fact doesn't hurt the picture except that it keeps it from giving any convincing impression of realism. They are sweat-shop characters, and times are hard. The pawnbroker has money and falls in love with the girl, through the schatchen, he offers $500 as a dowry, and the girl's father persuades her to accept. The hero and the girl, who really loves him, are in distress, but fate, at the last moment, proves kind. The acting is good, as is the photography. The reel is certainly interesting, but not powerfully emotional. - The Moving Picture World, May 25, 1912
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