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Another of the August-Hawley pictures, the predecessors of which have been so popular. The story is not a pleasant one (those plays which most faithfully portray life as it is are not apt to be), but it can be said that this is an interesting one, nevertheless, made so by the excellent work of the principals. The drama as it unfolds points out the domestic tragedy that may engulf two lives, or even four lives, by the interference in a daughter's love affairs of an ambitious mother. The chief situation is when the wealthy widow clandestinely meets her old sweetheart, the one she has really loved through all her miserable married life, just outside his home. John, the grocer, of poetic temperament, who likewise has been harassed throughout his wedded life by an unresponsive, heckling slattern, forgetting himself in the presence of the woman he loves, has embraced her. His little son, empty milk bottle in hand, ready for bed and waiting for his father to prepare his nightly sustenance, breaks in on the scene. The father, on the brink, picks up the child and rushes into the house. The widow enters her car, goes to her home and falls across a couch. John, sobbing, is oblivious to the reproaches of his wife. It is the rainbow's end. - The Moving Picture World, November 30, 1912