Lola

A pleasing two-part offering, in which an old situation is worked up with skill to make a simple and a fresh appeal. In the first reel an opera singer tells to her manager, over the wine of a fashionable cabaret, where some graceful dancing is going on, the story of how she ran away from her home eight years before. In the second reel she goes to find her folks again and learns that her departure broke the heart of her father (John Steppling). The day after she ran away, her sweetheart, a machinist, had been blinded and had called for her. Her sister had responded, and, finding that he was wholly deceived, she had married him. The producer has been remarkably happy in subtly contrasting the singer's fate that was and that might have been, and this is helped out by a piece of cleverly and freshly contrived camera work that is commendable. It is not a great offering, but a very likable one. - The Moving Picture World, September 19, 1914