Here is a strongly emotional film, with the death of a great musician at the moment of success. Then follows the spectacle of a boy, little more than a child, seizing his father's baton and directing a complicated opera while his father lies dead just back of the curtain. The details are worked out with care, and the emotions are deeply stirred. The boy's work is so good that the manager and himself are warmly congratulated, after which the manager adopts him and the picture closes with the manager putting the boy to bed while a vision of the father smiles down from above. It is a simple story, yet there is something about it which appeals strongly to the emotions and tears rise unbidden as the picture proceeds. - The Moving Picture World, July 8, 1911
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