This two-reel production, featuring Florence Lawrence, is quite entertaining, but not as strong as some things we have seen her in. In the story, shown by a moving picture within a picture, she is mistaken for an insane girl and thrown into an asylum. Matt Moore, as the actor-nut, does some humorous stunts in bringing about her release. Later the real insane girl, who imagines she is Florence Lawrence, turns up and recovers her senses. The manner of presenting this, by two pictures, seemed unnecessarily complicated and added but little to the plot. - The Moving Picture World, September 19, 1914

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A moving picture actress is mistaken for an escaped asylum patient; the insane girl then steps into the actress's life.

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