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A VICTORIOUS ARMY RETURNING FROM BATTLE
The European War — In Grantwood, N. J.
By ROBERT J. SHORES
Across the Hudson River from the tomb of General Ulysses S. Grant there came the rattle of musketry and the boom of artillery. It was the first sound of Europe's war to reach the ears of Manhattanites. The Germans and the Allies were in deadly conflict !
The scene of this fighting was in a sparsely wooded hollow back of the little suburb of Grantwood, N. J., high up on the Palisades, Two hundred and fifty men were busily engaged in chasing each other up and down the slopes, making wonderful cavalry charges and rushing up with their artillery. First a wing of the "Allies" would be driven back; then they would rally and advance ruthlessly across the positions formerly held by the " Germans.' '
Even a German village was sacked and the houses burned. Dead heroes lay all about, and the smoke of battle floated up thru the oak-trees and across the little slopes covered with half -withered goldenrod, in clouds far more dense than are seen today in actual warfare, because black powder instead of the smokeless variety was used solely that this should be so.
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Some day, doubtless before this writing gets into print, hundreds and even thousands of people will have sat in a darkened "movie" theater and gazed tensely and excitedly at these very scenes enacted so far from Belgium and the French and German frontier.
' ' Gee ! ' ' you can almost hear some deeply impressed young man exclaim to his companion, • ' I wouldn 't wanter be a 'movie' camera man. It must be dangerous work. I betcher hundreds of them photographers get shot trying to get pictures like these."
This will be the very highest form of praise, not so much for the author of the war scenario as for the director. For two weeks he worked with his men in the open country just outside of Grantwood, N. J., with but one object in view, and that was to make people in the Moving Picture audience thrill as did the young man just mentioned, and believe as implicitly as did he in the perfect genuineness of the "war pictures. ' '
As I visited these New Jersey "battlefields" during some of the operations, I was told, with a genial wink, that these pictures were being