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We have never noticed Mary Ryan to better advantage than in this picture, which is by Romaine Fielding, and could be by no one else in the world. It is a farce played as earnestly as a tragedy, and though it will surely make the people sit up and wonder, it is a pronounced success. May we have more like it. After the laughter, which seemed fairly wrung from a not too willing audience, the consensus seemed to be that it was the queerest picture ever projected. It is queer, so queer that there were some who didn't like it wholly; they didn't know just how to enjoy it; it was almost recondite to them, but it made them laugh. The fun comes from the character played by Mary Ryan, the funniest kind of a real human being, and the disturbance that she manages to scare up makes us wish we were on the neighboring hilltop with a good field glass. We laughed so we wept even here. It is not a perfect picture. There are moments when the action seems overdrawn, and surely that automobile accident didn't help it; that wasn't either fresh or good. Belle Bennett deserves mention. A desirable release. - The Moving Picture World, February 8, 1913