Jean Intervenes

Jean is the Vitagraph black and white collie and those who watch the pictures closely will remember that a few months back Jean was pictured as coming between two lovers. That picture was much more believable. This picture shows Jean as exhibiting human traits of sympathy and intelligence that the spectator cannot accept. Miss Turner and Hal Reid play the leading parts as the two lovers who quarrel over Jean, the lover being somewhat jealous of the collie, and whom Jean in the end brings together again. Miss Edith Halleran and Wallace Reid play important roles as a married couple, friends of the lovers. Miss Turner's acting, and as far as that goes the acting of all the principals, gives more than one pretty moment to the picture, which, however, doesn't afford her any real freedom. It is not shown to fair advantage. The plot, the story itself and even the backgrounds, which appear disjointed, keep the picture from rising very much above commonplace. The camera work is fair; it is of full length. A filler. - The Moving Picture World, February 3, 1912