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This reviewer confesses that he judges the atmosphere of early southern Californian pictures by H.H. Jackson's great romance, "Ramona." He is the more satisfied as to the righteousness of doing so by the fact that the atmosphere of this and many other good pictures is the same as that of the story of Ramona and Felipe. In this picture, though, the Indians are not friendly. The hero rescues an Indian girl and brings her to a mission school. This Indian maid later overhears a plot of a half- breed who wants to be avenged on the hero's fiancée because she does not love him, and in a very interesting scene she, dressed as a boy, kills the half-breed; it happens in a ceremony called the dagger dance and in the very way the villain was purposing to kill the fiancée's father. Then follows the scene in the church, where the Indians come demanding the supposed boy, who is now a nun. This scene faithfully pictures the Indians' reverence for the Church. The padre easily dominates the situation, shows them the culprit dressed in her black robes and calling sternly upon them to repent, continues with the mass, the Indians kneeling with the others. The one noticeable blemish in the picture is the Padre's wig; it is too plainly artificial. The conduct of the picture and the acting are clear and the backgrounds interesting. It's a very interesting picture. - The Moving Picture World, August 12, 1911