In the Grip of a Charlatan

A picture of modern life in a great city, in which hypnotism is used to bring out a melodramatic situation. It is not a great picture, but it is perhaps the most commendable offering, considering all things, among today's releases, and a large audience seemed to watch it closely. Alice Joyce is very pretty in the heroine's role as the one the charlatan (R.P. Gibbs) hypnotizes and makes a captive in his house. Tom Moore (the lover), with Richard Purdon (the father) and police, rescue her. The sets are commendable, as usual in pictures made by this company. The photography is very good. - The Moving Picture World, April 19, 1913