Life's Lesson

If this be rather a strange play it must at the same time be denominated a strong play. The story is of the trusting husband who introduces to his wife, his second one, a friend, in order that she may have company and escort in his absence. As the husband was divorced by his first wife for the best of reasons it may seem strange to the sophisticated that such a man would be so unworldly-wise as to deliberately lay a trap for the second wife. That the friend and the wife, thrown constantly in each other's company, should develop a strong friendship, was the most natural result to be expected. The picture did not reveal any justification for the act of the husband when he put a pistol in the hand of the indiscreet friend, with a suggestion that he blow the top of his head off. That the author saw fit to permit the young man to die of heart disease rather begged the issue. The picture is worth seeing. - The Moving Picture World, September 7, 1912