The Moving Picture Weekly (1918-1919)

-THE MOVING PICTURE WEEKLY 43 AT A GLANCE SUBJECT— "The Heart of Humanity. LENGTH— Eight reels. STAR— Dorothy Phillips. PREVIOUS HITS— "The Talk of the Town," "Destiny," "The Mortgaged Wife," "A Soul for Sale," "The Risky Road," and others. STORY BY — Allen Holubar and Olga SchoU. SCENARIO BY— Allen Holubar and Olga Scholl. DIRECTED BY— Allen Holubar. SUPPORTING CAST— William Stowell, Walt Whitman, Robert Anderson, Frank Braidwood, George Hackathorn, Gloria Joy, Margaret Mann, Lloyd Hughes, Pat O'Malley. LOCALE — Canadian woods; trenches in France; Red Cross hospital; No Man's Land; Belgium. CLASS — Drama of a mother's sacrifice, a girl's love and a man's bravery, with war as a background. THUMB-NAIL THEME — The story of a little FrenchCanadian girl who followed her husband to war in order that she might care for the suffering children of France and Belgium, and there learned the real meaning of "The Heart of Humanity." "THE HEART OF HUMANITY" story by Allen Holubar and Olga Scholl THE CAST. . to plunge it into her bosom if the "The Heart of Humanity" Jewel. door yields. Nanette Dorothy Phillips ^"^j; ^^"^^^ two German John Patricia William Stowell .^^^^.^^^ ^^^^^ Paul Patricia Robert Anderson Strang is struggling to open the Jules Patricia Lloyd Hughes ^r""' f and he kills Maurice Patricia Frank Braidwood f ''1^ .Pf"^^^ ^^Ti^^/r""' Widow Patricia Margaret Mann to find that his wife has stabbed her Father Michael Walt Whitman She does not die, however, and Clancy, an Irish-American, recovers after several weeks m ahos Pat O'Malley Pi^^^ Lieut, von Eberhard, , Nanette is persuaded to go back Erich von Stroheim *^°™^' .^^i'^l ^^^^ Also 3,000 Soldiers, Marines, Refu ^l^^^ that their boy now needs her. gees Civilians, etc There is a happy reunion m the httle ' ' Canadian village between mother and TWF QTORV ^^^^^ their joy becomes still itxtu greater when John, one day after JN a little Canadian village lives peace is signed, walks back to the Nanette, the ward of Father Mich arms of his mother, wife and child. ael. She is engaged to John, son of the Widow Patricia. John is one of FOR THE HERALD, four other brothers, all of whom IN a little picturesque village in adore the little girl. the Canadian woods lives Nanette, John returns from college, picking the ward of Father Michael, the up on the way as a traveling com parish priest. She is engaged to panion Oscar Strang. John and Nan John, one of the five sons of Widow ette are overjoyed to be reunited, but Patricia. John returns from college their happiness is clouded by Strang, and brings with him, as traveling who is attracted to Nanette and companion, Oscar Strang. Oscar makes love to her. Nanette, how makes love to her but Nanette never ever, remains true to John and re falters in her love for John, pulses the attentions of Strang. Then comes the war. Widow PaThen comes the war. News of the tricia gives her five sons. John and opening of hostilities comes on the Nanette are married before he goes wedding day of John and Nanette, as an aviator in the Canadian forces. John and four other sons enlist for One by one the widow hears of the service with the Canadian forces, death of four of her boys. Nanette, One after another all but John are a mother now, reads in her husband's killed, and misery comes into the letters of the terrible sufferings enhome of the Widow Patricia. Then dured by French and Belgian chilNanette's child comes to soften the dren. She leaves her baby with her grief of the mother and the anxiety mother-in-law and goes abroad as a of the wife. Finally, the fifth son of Red Cross nurse, the widow enlists. Nanette sees John but once. She John's letters home tell of the suf is on duty in a convent that has. been ferings endured by French and Bel put to use as an asylum of refuge gian children in the war and Nanette for children. Soon afterward John's finally determines to go to their aid. airplane is brought down inside the She enlists in the Red Cross and is German lines and he is made a prisassigned to duty in a convent in oner. In their advance toward Paris, France. She sees her husband, now the Germans capture the little town an aviator, but soon afterward he is in which Nanette is in service, brought down inside the German Among the enemies is Oscar Strang, lines and is made a prisoner. now a German officer. Nanette is In the meantime, Oscar Strang be captured, comes an officer in the German army. In the meantime, John has escaped In the advance on Paris the Germans from the German prison and goes, in take the convent in which Nanette is German uniform, to seek Nanette in on duty, and Strang meets Nanette the convent. After a thrilling fight again. He attacks her and a terrific he breaks into the room where Strang fight develops. She succeeds finally and Nanette are strugling. He kills in escaping to another room and bars Strang and rescues his wife, but not the door. until she had plunged a danger into Meanwhile John escapes from the her breast. German war prison and, in the uni She does not die, however. The form of a German soldier whom he conclusion of the story is depicted in has killed, starts for the convent. "The Heart of Humanity," which has Nanette, safe for the time being be been described as the greatest screen hind a barred door, stands in horror production since "The Birth of a Na as Strang pounds on the door out tion," with Dorothy Phillips in the side. She grasps a knife, determined leading role.