A fine three part picture by Harvey Gates and staged by Herbert Brenon. The thing that happened when the world was silent in the dead of night is new and startlingly sensational. For the cast-off sweetheart of a great musician, after chloroforming her victim, pours nitric acid in his ears and he never hears again. He was about to marry the other woman, but now this society girl thinks better of the bargain. The author has made the villainess who did this thing still love the musician and has made it plausible. He brings her back to the injured man and lets her marry him, yet holds a clue over her bead. This clue is in the hands of the man's butler and will some time fasten the guilt on her. The author then complicates it by making the musician need the woman and love her. The butter now proves that she is the guilty one and the author, with a Hawthorne-like touch, starts out to make her live a "third degree" life in the house with the butler knowing all. Yet here he weakens by letting the husband into the secret at once and gets the happy ending by an expedient that is spoiled by conventional atmosphere. It is needless to say, well acted and excellently staged. Both author and producer have done praiseworthy work. - The Moving Picture World, July 25, 1914
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