These reproductions of masterpieces are of benefit to everybody who sees them
13 October 2015
Another of those successful reproductions of literary masterpieces, which have been made a feature by this house. The good old Vicar of Wakefield, Goldsmith's moving story, is here reproduced in all his kindliness. The characters seem to live before one, and all the pathos and beauty of the original is faithfully produced. The mock marriage of the daughter, the imprisonment for debt, and the kindly offices among the prisoners, then the discovery that the marriage was performed by a real minister, and the forcing of the young man to ask the girl's pardon, with the reunion to follow, while the squire asks the hand of the other daughter. The picture closes with a glimpse of the happiness to which the good man is clearly entitled. These reproductions of masterpieces are of benefit to everybody who sees them, while the presentation of such works is to be commended from every standpoint. They are well done, and to those who have read the stories, they come as illustrations of what they already know. If they have not read it, they are introduced to something which surpasses that to which they are accustomed. - The Moving Picture World, January 7, 1911
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