The Hindoo Charm

A picture taken in the Orient by the travelers. It is likely to be popular, for there is much good in it; the situation is fresh and has a punch. Maurice Costello plays an English official in India who, to get a mother for his two little girls, marries again (Clara Kimball Young plays the new wife). The stepmother neglects the children. She had awakened the resentment of a fakir, played perfectly by James Young, and this "devil priest" makes gruesome use of the children's longing for the love of their new mother; he tells the youngest of them to put some liquid he gives her into tea to make her love them and it is done. The children keep the picture from being wholly convincing, and Mr. Costello, in running, after the catastrophe skips as though he were glad, but this is not logical. It is well staged. Eugene Mullen is the author and Maurice Costello produced it. - The Moving Picture World, October 4, 1913