One or two pretty scenes, one or two passages where the acting of the heroine is charming, will hardly keep this picture from being a failure. With the exception of the heroine, her mother and perhaps her girlfriend, the characters are not very well chosen. The rural characters, the girl's father and men of the village, are with no exception plainly artificial. The story is commonplace. The country hero in the city forgets his first love; but when the city girl, who was engaged to him, scorns him, he comes back to his first love, comes to her in the attitude of a real hero bark from the wars. The song that reminded him of this first love isn't worth putting into a picture play. This song, when the man sings it again to the heroine, recalls to her senses, for she had gone mad. When she realizes things again, she falls into his arms. - The Moving Picture World, August 19, 1911
Review of The Call of the Song
