Salt Lake Telegram | 1913-12-13 | Page 16 | "The Port of Doom"

uTHE PORT POET OF DOOM F Players V There are aro overal spectacular s cenes fin in The liThe Port of Doom that will ro re- main n in the memory long after the tho film has as been seen A ship founders at sea with aU all the ot of an actual catas- catas Its passengers are awakened from their sleep and flee fieo to the dock in ina n. n panic so 80 well enacted that ono one can almost imagine he is seeing life itself In spite of the merit of several eral of its individual scenes th standard ot of the tho feature as a whole not como come ip p to that set b by the several se splendid Players releases which ha have e preceded pro pre ceded it Beginning 3 as a a. detective story this element is lost in the middle Ot of the when the mystery which has been baffling Kate Kirby the detective e Is solved but the film is 18 continued along alon other lines with the question of Will Wi she be saved 1 replacing the Sherlock J interest a point which does not keep the audience at the tho height of expectancy as they unfortunately know only too well that she will Do bo saved A wealthy owner wishes his dau daughter Yora Voi-a.- to marry his secretary tar tar- Fuller but has already fallen in love 10 with the first officer of one of her fath fathers father's vessels is informed th that t the tho ve vessel sel is untiL unfit to bo be used useI without ro- ro pairs being made mado but because of his Jealous of the officer ho be d decides to keep his information secret The vessel ns as a result sails away awa from part in a badly damaged condItion