Here is a gripping story and original enough to insure it a place of its own, setting it out from the commonplace releases as a distinctly interesting picture. It is the tragic significance of its situation that is so effective in it; but the setting is suggestively natural and the acting, especially of the two leaders, is clear cut and powerful in bringing out its meaning and its emotional result. It is a story of the Pacific coast. The dragon's breath is opium, a need for which the young bride (Lois Weber) of a college president, Phillips Smalley) unconsciously contracts while caring for a sick servant, a. Chinaman, It is a commendable offering. - The Moving Picture World, April 26, 1913