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A newspaper story with some very interesting views taken from the roof of a large building in New York City. These serve as the setting for a chase of a gang of second story men. The chief of the gang, pressed too hard by the police, throws down a chimney a bundle of bills, and these fall into the room of a cub reporter working for twelve a week. They are his temptation. The story fails to capture our attention as strongly as some of the recent Kalems, partly because it is not forcefully acted and partly because it wasn't written concretely; it is more like a newspaper account of the incident than like a story made effective by wisely choosing only what is necessary. There is some fine photography, and the story has a new incident. Earle Foxe plays the reporter; Alice Joyce, his wife; Tom Moore, a stool pigeon, and Matt B. Snider, Charles M. King and Richard Purdon have lesser roles. - The Moving Picture World, February 8, 1913