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Observer, Volume XL, Issue 9, 1 November 1919, Page 25

''The Eyes, of Youth" is a moving picture play, and is played most ingeniously in a series of episodes, not unlike some of the pictorial aerials that are so popular with the public. As Gina Ashton, Miss Emelie Polini gets a great chance to display her rainbow talent. Gina is somewhat of a dreamer; she seems to live in the future, or, rather, desires to, and when a stray Indian hawker with a taste for the mystical, hears her say, "Oh, if I could only look into the future!" he subtly suggests that it is not impossible—with the aid of his magic crystal. She gazes into the shining globe, and gradually the scene changed, and she is seen installed as the teacher of a number of children in a mean school. That is one episode. Next she is back in the old drawing room gazing in a fascinated way into the crystal, and once more the scene is changed. She is a grand opera singer, and in a remarkable scene she has a dispute with her manager—as such artists do—and as the result an understudy is put on in her place. It would be telling too much to describe the other episode, but none of them foretell her real future. "The Eyes of Youth" has proved a universal success—nowhere in the Englishspeaking world bas it failed,