In "The Man From Mexico" John Barrymore showed himself to be a comedian of rare attainments on the screen quite as well as on the stage; in "Are Tou a Mason?" produced in five reels by the Famous Players from Leo Ditrichstein's farce, he improves on his own earlier performances. He plays broad farce with a finesse as welcome as it is unusual. The refinement of his personality is never lost; one continually enjoys watching a true comedian, trained in the best method of the stage and able, the picture proves it, to utilize the training in another medium. Mr. Barrymore's performance is a lesson in how to be funny without being vulgar. Credit for the emphatic success of the production must be shared by the writer of the scenario, who built up a plot of cumulative strength and by the director, who brought out the full value of the story and enlivened it with a quantity of telling incidents, small in themselves, but collectively of great value. - The Moving Picture World, April 3, 1915
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