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It is a picture of a boy and his mother; it has very emotional scenes; but to this reviewer, it doesn't seem to hang together very convincingly. The son is a successful broker and his mother, in another town, is very sick. First he answers her plea to see him by saying that he can't come and then, before his open fire in his finely furnished apartment, he falls asleep and, in a dream, pictures that show his mother's never tiring kindness come to him. Many of these pictures are convincing, but if these are taken as true, it makes one or two of them seem improbable. It was of course impossible for him to have dreamed of his cradle; that was the first picture. When his father had dismissed him, in the city, he was without work and hungry, he is shown as receiving a letter from his mother and a basket of food. The letter was peculiar and not typical; the broiled chicken and the cake were all right. As a result of these dream pictures (which were not photographed in a different light from the real things that are shown) the broker goes home and makes amends for the unnecessarily, brutally curt letter he had sent to his mother. The theme deserved a better picture; but just as it is, it is quite acceptable. - The Moving Picture World, August 26, 1911