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Jolui Garfield as Diaz and Brian Aher much to be said for it ! It relates with remarkable historical truthfulness an authentic episode of the triumph of the Munroe Doctrine over foreign despotism in the Western world, which fits in teUingiy with the current exposition of Americanism on the screen, though its point is somewhat dulled by our knowledge that tlie ideals of ^Mexico's liberal president, so eloquently presented in the picture, were far from being permanently established by the execution of MaximiHan. Howe^-er, against a panorama of impressive pictorial beauty, a lofty drama of high aspirations in government is presented, well written and acted by a star-studded cast of excellent actors.
The picture deals with that period in Mexico's history when Louis Napoleon, third Emperor of the French, using the collection of some debts as an excuse, sought to set up the Austrian Maximihan as a Mexican ruler subservient to French interests and policy, and the resulting conflict between the idealistic Hapsburg and the oppositely idealistic native leader whose principles
7ie as Maximilian in, "Juarez"
paralleled those of Abraham Lincoln. It was an exciting and colorful period, animated by characters of heroic tragic stature. Benito Juarez, the Indian, who dreamed of a free and enlightened future for !\Iexico and fought for it against foreign usurpation and domestic treachery — what we think of as democracy was his ideal. Pitted against him the aristocratic and gentle Maximilian, just as devoted to the well-being of his adopted country but with the in-bred conviction that benevolent despotism was the onl}^ wise and effective way of rule. His lovely Empress, Carlotta, whose reason collapsed at the realization of the fraud practiced upon her husband by Napoleon. Porfirio Diaz, the ardent young disciple of Juarez, who was later to play so great a part in Mexico's development as her perpetual president. And across the ocean the third Napoleon, fitfully playing with the idea of getting a foothold in America.
A large canvas, and stirring events of great magnitude to picture on it. The surprising fact is that these events do not