An artistic picture with a pathetic story of an old actor's declining years. He has fallen upon hard times after a long and brilliant career and is reduced to such straits that he accepts a supernumerary's role in a production of King Lear. Luck favors him and he gets a chance to play the great leading role in which his acting is such that it crowns him with a flash of glory and then he dies. It is a picture that surely reflects great credit on its producer. The tempest scene of the play that is given so that we see it as half with the audience and half with the people behind, is deeply effective. It is the kind of offering that makes the spectator respect motion pictures. Camera work is perfect. - The Moving Picture World, March 7, 1914
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