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Interest in "LIBERTY;
Eddie Polo in "Liberty" No. 15.
HE Universal Company has always specialized in serial pictures and has always made a special effort to put into each serial the very best talent that was to be obtained. This policy has been a hard one to enforce for each serial, as it has come out has been better than the preceding one, and all the while the public taste has been educated up to higher and higher standards. So with the appearance of each new serial the public has always waited with baited breath to see what the Universal Company was going to do to make the current serial better than the last one. Time after time it has been said that the current serial was the finest that could be produced, and then the next one has surpassed its predecessor. That is why one can readily say that "Liberty" is the finest serial that has yet appeared. Whether or not it is the finest that can be produced the next Universal serial will tell.
Before it was even started this serial was destined to do big things, so wonderful were its prospects. The story, all carefully written in advance, was really remarkable, not only for the thrills that it contained, but also for the consistency of its quality. Printed at length in the advance "dope sheet" that was published, it unravelled a series of exciting adven
tures that were hitherto unheard of in serials. There had already been plenty of mystery serials and crook serials, but "Liberty" presented something entirely new in the way of clean entertainment that had never before been attempted. Here were thrills galore, but all of the entertaining kind that could not possibly have an evil effect upon the youth of the country. That they have not had any but a good effect is proved by the way that the Boy Scouts have given the picture their support.
Not only in the choice of subject matter, but also in the selection of a locale was "Liberty" fortunate. The region where all the exciting scenes take place is not in some hazy indefinite foreign country, but right on our own border and amid the section that is at this very moment the scene of many occurrences almost identical with the ones that are depicted in the film. No wonder there
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are thrills when the whole is set in an atmosphere of reality that would be impossible to manufacture. Most of the scenes that depict the border were actually taken in the vicinity of the places where took place the exciting events that thrilled our nation and caused the troops of the National Guard to be sent down there.
When it was announced last spring in the papers that the Villistas had invaded this country and had killed many American citizens, was there a heart in all this great country that did not thrill with the patriotism of the old kind, the kind that caused our forefathers to give their all to free this country from the despotism with which it was beset? Those were serious days when the Guard was called out and so many of our finest youths left their business and their families to answer to the call of their country. But how many of the men who went or the ones who stayed at home really
"Liberty," in desperation, holds up Lopez, the bandit, and the entire