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Some of the scenes are of surpassing excellence
Commendable especially for its good photographic effects is the Reliance subject of the above mentioned title. While the general tone of the picture throughout is good, some of the scenes are of surpassing excellence and reflect great credit upon the manufacturing department of the Reliance Company. The story is not great, but it carries a lesson that is set forth plainly and logically by the players who have carried their respective parts in an intelligent and convincing manner. Bert Mason is a young New York lawyer just springing into prominence; he is in love with Ruth, presumably a girl of the old home town, for the first scene shows the young man upon a visit to his fiancée and sees him depart for the city. Plunging into the toil of a great case, the young lawyer has barely time to write a few lines to his sweetheart to promise a long letter when the case is finished. But time passes and the letter is not written and the girl is alone with her sorrows and her invalid father. What is happening with the young lawyer is shown in some excellent scenes wherein he is seen to be enjoying the social amenities of the great city. In the course of events he meets and becomes enamored of a beautiful woman, who exerts her charms to fascinate him. This arouses the jealousy of a rival lover who finally shoots the young lawyer when he finds that he has been supplanted in the siren's favor. The bullet does not kill, but it threatens to cost the young lawyer his eyesight and he goes to the hospital for treatment. Back in the home town the news comes to the girl as a great shock. She has heard nothing from her lover in some time; her father has died and she is quite alone, but for the hope that the recreant lover would come to her. With the information that he has been shot while in the company of a woman by his rival, Ruth determines to go to him. A letter of introduction to the city doctor in charge from her old family doctor gains admission to the patient's room. Days of patient nursing follow until an operation has been performed; then the bandages are removed and it is found that sight has been saved to the young man. At first, in his gratitude to the surgeon for saving his sight, the young lawyer does not see his little sweetheart, but once his eyes rest upon her there is no hesitation and a happy reconciliation concludes the picture. - The Moving Picture World, August 12, 1911
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