Love Among the Roses

"What is love?" may well he asked after seeing this picture. Yet one might be disposed to agree with the turn affairs finally took. Whether it was intended as a species of criticism of marriages of convenience, or whether it worked out that way in the telling, is a question which sets one pondering. It would seem perfectly natural for the lord and lady to wed. Such marriages of convenience have been consummated since the dawn of history. The gardener and lacemaker but followed the example of others better situated than themselves. Many have done the same thing before under similar circumstances. But here fate, or some other equally perverse influence, intervenes and both the lord and lady fall in love, but not with each other. Eventually the picture works out for the best good of all. The chief interest in this picture is in the sociological questions involved, and the long vista of speculation which opens ahead of one as the actors tell their story. - The Moving Picture World, May 21, 1910

Arthur V. Johnson breaks many sticks over his knee in frustration in this paper-thin fantasy-drama from D.W. Griffith which preaches that true romance is preferable to betrothals of convenience.