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The story of "The Foundling" is one of the best of a week of good productions in which all manufacturers have scored above their average. Not even in its high art films, in which the Vitagraph Company displays its talent for elaborate staging, has it ever produced a subject which so gripped the attention of moving picture theatre-goers. As we watched the effect that this film produced on a crowded house, we could not help feeling that the silent drama had come into its own as a substantial and permanent means of entertainment. It has been interpreted by capable actors whose faces are new in Vitagraph films. Without exception their parts were well performed, and the scenes are so well arranged and so convincing that the film, as a whole, stands out as being so far above the average that the Vitagraph folks will have to work hard to excel it or even to keep up to its standard. - The Moving Picture World, June 26, 1909