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SHORT REVIEW AND PUBLICITY STORY Designed for use in your newspapers after the first showing of ^THE SPIRIT OF ’17*’
The idea that just because a man is old enough to be a veteran in a Home for Old Soldiers he is no longer fit for active service, is dissipated in "The Spirit of '17" in which Jack Pickford is appearing as star at the Theatre.
It is shown by the author. Judge Willis Brown of the Chicago Juvenile Court, in this, his first venture into screenland, that as long as a man has the necessary courage and can still shoulder a musket, he is good enough to defend a town. The idea arises when the youth typified by Mr. Pickford in the story, finds the workmen in his town in danger of being led into a violent strike by German agents.
He invokes the aid of a company formed from the ranks of the men who once before had fought for their country and its cause ; the veterans with pride and hearts again singing with the bouyant spirit of youth-time, march into the breach and stop the foreign cohorts in their attempted marauding until the hastily summoned militia can arrive.
Mr. Pickford 's work is especially good as "Davy Glidden" while that of the excellent cast, including Katherine McDonald, Edythe Chapman, Jack Johnson and Helen Eddy is remarkably in accord with the excellence of the entire production.
Stories of slackers and heroes and stay-at-homes as well as of soldiers have been rife on the screen recently, but it has remained for Judge Willis Brown of the Chicago Juvenile Court and Jack Pickford to write and act in respectively, a photoplay dealing with "The
Spirit of *17," in which Jack Pickford is starring at the
Theatre this week, veterans of the Civil and Spanish American wars play a prominent part. The splendid cast which supports Mr. Pickford includes Katherine McDonald, Edythe Chapman, Helen Eddy, J. W. Johnson and L. N. Wells, as well as the work of Mr. William D. Taylor, the director, deserves special commendation.
Scenic effects of exceptional beauty have been secured by cameraman Homer Scott. Julia Crawford Ivers, who arranged the story for screen presentation, has done several of young Mr. Pickford 's recent scenarios, including "Tom Sawyer" in which he scored a signal success.
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