It is one long race with the Cardinal's guards who are at last left behind.

It is the same plot as Reynard the Fox, John Masefield's poem--Reynard successfully eluding the huntsmen and the dogs.

If that poem is ever put on in an Art Museum film, it will have to be staged like one of AEsop's Fables, with a _man_ acting the Fox, for the children's delight.

And I earnestly urge all who would understand the deeper significance of the "chase-picture" or the "Action Picture" to give more thought to Masefield's poem than to Fairbanks' marvellous acting in the school of the younger Salvini.

The Mood of the _intimate photoplay_, chapter three, still remains indicated in the current films by the acting of Lillian Gish and Mary Pickford, when they are not roused up by their directors to turn handsprings to keep the people staring.