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A Guide to The Plough and the Stars
Called Into Active Service: Preston Foster as Jack Clitheroe.
2. Why is so great emphasis laid on the affection between Jack Clitheroe and his wife Nora?
His wish to please her on her birthday ; her wish to keep him from the danger of joining in an uprising against government; and the sincerity and happiness of their love for each other, all unite in arousing deep interest in the two leading persons of the story.
3. What is the first really startling dramatic event?
The arrival of Captain Brennan with General Connolly's summons to Clitheroe to serve as Commandant in the Citizen Army. That summons reveals the fact that Nora, in an effort to save her husband, had burned a previous message.
4. What do the next scenes do for the picture?
They show the excitement of the Dublin streets as men march away to war, and at the same time they indicate the sorrow and anxiety of the women who are left at home.
5. What spirit is awakened in the meeting on Dublin Square?
The torchlight procession, the music of bands, the waving of banners, and the fiery words of the orator arouse that fervor that makes men willing to fight and die for their homeland,
6. What is the attitude of the people as a whole?
Far from united. The conversations and arguments that follow the meeting on Dublin Square show such varying interests and beliefs that the success of the uprising is seen to be in doubt
7. What striking contrast is developed by the scene in church ?