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If this film has actually passed the Board of Censorship, the latter needs a censor worse than the pictures. A more disgusting and stupid thing than this alleged comedy has never traveled across a moving picture screen. The title is absolutely misleading and a positive imposition both upon public and exhibitor. It would lead one to believe that it was some sort of an American farce, while, as a matter of fact, it is nothing but an impossible caricature of human life. The scene is laid in Italy or France. A plot is conspicuous by its total absence and the titles shed no light on it. This is one of the titles: "M. Baumgarten, candidate to revolutionary deputy." How clear and plain that is to an American audience. The chief actor invites all sorts of disreputable male characters into his house and encourages them to make free with his wife. The finale shows the interior of the man's house and a most ostentatiously intoxicated crowd of men and women sinking slowly into a drunken stupor. Such things are nothing more and nothing less than a fraud on the exhibitor and should be suppressed. - The Moving Picture World, August 19, 1911