The subtitle is given to this picture, "A Madelyn Mack Detective Story," and the part of girl sleuth is played by Alice Joyce. The story could hardly be called probable: but the picture has much that will go a long way toward making it popular. At its end, police raid a house where kidnappers are holding two children of a capitalist and there follows a melee and hand-to-hand struggle that wrecks the house and all the furniture in it This series of scenes take up a good bit of the film and is exciting. There is a certain freshness in the offering, due perhaps, most to the careful staging, giving new scenes and a somewhat different atmosphere. The players do well, though it isn't a picture that calls for acting of a high order. Marguerite Courtot plays a peculiar young woman, daughter of a millionaire (Henry Hallam), who schemes to persuade her father to build a "home for slum children" and kidnaps her own little brother. She falls into the hands of a set of crooks and it takes Madelyn (Alice Joyce) to rescue her and her brother. - The Moving Picture World, October 25, 1913
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