A picture that will be popular, chiefly because of the novelty in the mayor's getting a job in disguise at Dale's sweatshop in order to see for himself how the poor are being ground down. This kind of situation has been liked since the time of great Haroun al Raschid, who used to "gum-shoe" around Bagdad. Yet it would have been much more convincing in a story of modern life, if the powerful benefactor had been someone not in office. The heroine is always the leading character in such a story. Pretty Francelia Billington is very acceptable in the role. The mayor is pictured by William H. West, who knows how to act such a part well. Carlyle Blackwell is the hero, the mayor's son. Paul Hurst is Dale, a conventional miser character. Jane Wolfe has a minor part. - The Moving Picture World, January 4, 1913
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