Photoplay (Jul - Dec 1916)

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136 Photoplay Magazine enced by a vast organization of women, through the girl he loves, to refuse to carry out an order to sink a liner, and in the mutiny of his men which results, he is badly wounded. Hovering between life and death he meets the Christus in a vision, and the Divine Man says: "In your body my spirit shall return to the world of realities and spread the gospel of peace." Urged on by this spirit, Count Ferdinand, upon his recoverv. makes his appeal, which finally touches the king and converts him. That is the entire story. Upon this slender but all sufficient thread, the theme is woven, showing first the beauties of pastoral life, then the calamity of war. and finally the return to peace. That universal appeal, absolutely necessary to the success of any art work, known as "human interest." is provided, not through a portrayal of the joys and sorrows of one little group of persons, but in a great series of bereavements and reunions. Thus there is not one "heart punch" but a score. Here. then, is the grip of "Civilization." in that before Mr. Tnce rolls on his heavy artillery, his 42-centimeter guns, his sub The "Bryan scene" in "The Fall of a Nation. " marines, his bomb-dropping aeroplanes, he has created a deep and enduring interest in the army against which these engines of death are operating. In the background are the deserted forge, the invalid mother, the tearful children, the shepherdless flocks, swiftly and graphically suggested in such juxta position that when the crash and flame of explosions leave the field strewn with bodies, there is a personal interest in the fate of the army, not weakened by futile guesses as to whether or not some handsome hero will stagger off the field to clasp to his bosom a beauteous damsel, but an interest which embraces all these men. compelled by the war power to abandon all that makes life lovely to engage in the business of destroying life. The thrill of the spectacle must ever be secondary to the thrill of emotion, since it appeals to the brain instead of to the heart. Mr. Ince's spectacle is tremendous, its mechanical equipment a revelation, save in one respect. His air fleet is numerically strong, but battle planes are not to be had for the asking in this country. His aeroplanes are mere skv runabouts and roadsters, bearing