User Reviews

"Little Clara Horton is the leading lady in this picture and once more shows her ability as an actress, though, at the same time, she is crowded for honors by the other children in the play. Detective Steele is considered a most conscientious and efficient worker on the police force. He is the father of quite a family and as the Christmas holiday approaches finds himself rather hard pressed financially. He tells his children how Santa Claus comes down the chimney on Christmas eve and fills the stockings of all well-behaved little boys and girls with toys and candies of all kinds. The tale has made a deep impression on the minds of the children. After hanging up their stockings on that most wonderful of all nights they hit on a plan of trapping Santa Claus, and from the attic they drag forth an old bear trap which they set and put up in the fire-place. It so happens that on this very night, Detective Steele, with two other officers, is in the pursuit of a well-known criminal for whose capture a reward of one thousand dollars has been offered. The hunted man eludes them in a chase over the roofs of the houses near the detective's own home. Believing they have lost him, Mr. Steele runs in to his house for a moment to see his family, aid is very much startled by a most unusual commotion in the parlor. He rushes in and discovers that the criminal he had been after had been caught in the bear trap the youngsters had set for Santa. The detective, of course, procures the reward, and the children have the best Christmas ever." This film is actually still extant in the UCLA film library but is in need of preservation.