Lon Chaney gives his most effective performance now as the underworld leader in this throbbing film production. A sputter of bullets in the dark...a battle of crook against crook...and the flowering of a beautiful romance in this amazing setting.
SHE loved too much...and too sincerely...while HE sought love to the tune of a moanin' sax! (Print Ad-Pittsburgh Press,((Pittsburgh, Penna.)) 29 December 1929)
A play of Russian intrigue which gives Miss Bara a grand opportunity to display and bring forth all her dramatic powers and her Vampireism. She vents her hatred on every man she meets and how she returns and wreaks vengeance on the man who betrays her makes one of the greatest Fox pictures ever produced. (Print Ad- Honolulu Star-Bulletin, ((Honolulu T.H.)) 6 December 1916)
Youth! All on fire with Love! Till blind age chilled it's joy with "Duty". But youth against the world! And it's victory Song is this happy hearted romance (Print Ad- The Daily Star, ((Fredricksburg, Va.)) 9 July 1921)
THE THRILLING ADVENTURE OF A GIRL WHO RISKED «HER HONOR» TO WIN LOVE (original print ad-all caps)
Bernice has more "It than Clara Bow...More allure than Dot Mackail...More charm than Billie Dove! She's a Wow! (Print Ad- Newark Sunday Call, ((Newark NJ)) 26 January 1930)
The last word in thrills and comedy! What a show!