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THE MOTION PICTURE NEWS
"LITTLEST REBEL" WILL OPEN SYRACUSE HOUSE
Owing to the inability of the management of the Regent Theatre, Syracuse, N. Y., to secure "The
MIMI YVONNE
Nightingale," the All-Star release featuring Ethel Barrymore, with which to open their house, they booked "The Littlest Rebel," which was shown when the theatre opened on August 29.
" Lay Down Your Arms" Argues for Peace
Great Northern Film Company's Powerful Production. Founded on the First Book to Expose War Horror, Affects Spectators
In a popularity contest held by the Star Theatre, 483 Third avenue. New York City, Darwin Karr, the Vitagraph player, poled the largest vote.
THE Great Northern Film Company's masterful production of "Lay Down Your Arms," although it has been pronounced one of the greatest war pictures ever staged, is not a war film in the fullest sense of the word. It does not parade the pomp and eclat of militarism, nor does it present any of the so-called glories of war, but it emphasizes the horrors of war and its utter barbarity and undesirability.
"Lay Down Your Arms," as the title implies, is therefore an anti-war picture and is all the more timely. A story which ought to excuse or advocate war would be decidedly de trop just now during the stress of an overabundance of belligerency, when so many people have come to abhor war.
Baroness Von Suttner's novel of "Lay Down Your Arms" was the first book to expose the terrible features of war, and the photoplay which is founded upon the book, is likewise the liTSt time that war has been censured by means of the motion picture. By the same token, this film is the first picture to argue for universal peace. But in addition it possesses a powerful story, enacted with vividness and staged on a gigantic scale. It is an unusual production in that it contains as realistic battle scenes as have ever been seen anywhere except at an actual seat of war.
The power of the photoplay is exemplified in the fact that at private exhibitions of the film, spectators have left the projection room after the exhibition with tears in their eyes, moved by the tensely dramatic story, and the realism of the pictured calamities that follow in the wake of war.
While the photoplay is timely now, it is a subject that will be timely always, because of its great argument for universal peace, which has been so earnestly advocated in recent years, and will probably be urged more strongly than ever after the present conflict is over. The European war is in itself an argument for peace.
"Lay Down Your Arms" is destined to have far-reaching effects. It will prove a great stimulus to the cause of peace by creating greater hatred for war, thus enlisting new advocates of peace.
THEATRE HAS PREMIERE
Special to The Motion Picture News
Atlanta, Sept. 3.
Under the management of Gartrell Holsenbeck, the Strand Theatre, Atlanta, Ga., opened on Monday, August 31, with the big Eclectic feature, "The Boundary Rider," supplemented by the regular Mutual service.
All the Eclectic and Mutual releases will be shown at this theatre.
CARING FOR THE WOUNDED AFTER THE BATTLE Scene from "Lay Down Your Arms" (Great Northern Feature)