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AND his people have served him admirably. Lillian Gish, coming outof her chrysalis, Is a viital, joying, sorrowing young person; Dorothy Gish, a mocking rogue, and Robert Harron, a clean-cut young hero, who goes beyond a former admired “Little Colonel.Besides these are a multitude of others; George Siegman as the baleful Hun again pursues Lillian Gish; George Fawcett's bits give some colorful light, and a tiny boy, Ben Alexander, does some of the most natural child playing to be seen outside of one’s own home.But there’s more than people here. There’s the exquisite charm of rural France, flourishing and destroyed; there’s the storm of most modern battle. Between them, in power, it’s hard to choose, for one has as poignant appeal as the other.One bit. Just some running water and some trees, and lovers walking in the twilight, drew a rush of spontaneous applause for Its sheer beauty.And the war scenes called out ap-plauBe for their strength and their significance. When we see our brothers, the French and British, these days, we must signal to them, even ifthey cannot hear. 80 last night the Olympic guests timo and again sent greetings.WAR AT CLOSE RANGEAFTEN the war scenes done dls-^ tlnetly suggested ’The Birth of aNation, but at close range it was all of to-day. At times the picture seemed a treatise on the war, soBY KITTY KELLY. |yyAR Is a grim and baleful business —as demonstrated last night toan Olympicful of people by D. W. Griffith’s thesis thereon, “The Hearts of the World.’’Griffith, master craftsman that he is, creates each photoplay he makes in a new image, not, as is the way with many novelists, in feeble echo of a former triumph.gO HERE, though he deals with love and war, as he always dealt, he does so differently. This doesn’t go across with the smashing ebullience of “The Birth of a Nation”; it hasn’t so much romance in it to buoy it up. But it sinks in deeper. It is more finely constructed, more humanly rounded.And it registers the realness of today, reaching the ache in the hearts of the world right now. To do a ro- | mantle drama on this Great War will require perspective, as he had on theCivil War.But this Is something better for these times and for future times than romantic drama. It is, in two hours’space, the epitome of nearly four years of war. It is the substance itself.Mr. Griffith has taken the abstract, j wrapped it about a few winning people. and made it a great concretism.He has gathered up the tangled threads of facts in these years, combed them smooth and woven them into a fine rich fabric, somber with the grim patterns of this war.“HEARTS OF THE 'WORLD.”David Wark Griffith production; presented at the Olympic.The Grandfather............Adolphe LestinaThe Mother ..............Josephine CrowellThe Girl......................Lillian GishThe Boy.....................Robert HarronThe Father cf the Boy........Jack CosgraveThe Mother of the Boy.........Kate BraceThe Littleut Brother........Ben* AlexanderThe little Disturber..........Dorothy GishThe Village Carpenter......George FawcettVon Stxo-Iim. Aifenfc of German Autocracy.....................Gtogo A. SiegemannA German Sergeant..........George (NicholsRefuge** 'Mother..................Mrs. GishWoman With Daughter.........Mrs. Harronclose were the views of different guns, trenches, airplanes and the like.Various notes down the side of the program explain different situations.telling what scenes were taken Jusfi after certain shells fell and so on.In some night battle scenes the red of flaming explosions was very happily applied—in others not so satisfactorily, sticking to the upper corner, as It should not. Small matter that, in the magnificent whole.Griffith’s angle is war, attack and not capture, but possession. He held a careful restraint over the horrors that the facts Justify, and he nearly eclipsed his Babylonian tendencies.“Hearts of the World” reaches the hearts of the world, which Is the ultimate accomplishment of any one who seeks to bring a message. It sinks into the thoughts, it asks another seeing.• • *Postscript—The dramatic critics of the town were out in force.AMUSEMENTS.AMUSEMENTS.COLISEUM—NOWTWICE DAILY AT 2:15 . 8:15 P. M. DOORS OPEN I HOUR EARLIER—For a Short SeasonAUDITORIUM mAMD GORGEOUS SPECTACLE OF CHIVALRYINDAYSOFOLD1250 CHARACTERS—300 DANCING GIRLSA Glorious Story of a Golden Age “WHEN KNIGHTWOOD WAS IN FLOWERtfMAY WiRTHMost Wonderful of All EquestriansSomersaulting From Horse to Horse Jumping From Ground to Flying Steed With Baskets on Her Feet.MISS LEITZELWorld’s Greatest Aerial GymnastHurling Her Body Over Her Own Shoulder 90 Consecutive Times Without PauseMARVELOUS MARTINSThe Most Amazing Comedy Riding Act Ever Seen Anywhere5 BIG NEW AERIAL ACTS—Australian Axmen—Many Trained Animal:1,000 Arenic SensationsMammoth Five Continent Menagerie.Congress of Human Oddities,. Reserved Seats NOW on Sale at Lyon Healy’a, Tho Fair and Coliseum./* 2:30—Twice Daily—8:15THE PICTURE WITH A PUNCHProduced by THOS. A. EDISON in Conjunction With theUNITED STATESMARINE CORPSr.0'The Story of the Awakening of a Man’s Soul on the Battlefields of FranceMATS. NIGHTS25-50 25-50-75-5100cJcmes, Iinick Schaefer’s 1OL ONI A LLASTWEEKRAYMOND HITCHCOCKin HITCHY-KOO wi‘hLEON ERROL IRENE BORDONILAST MATINEE SATURDAYLAST NIGHT THE MOST NOTABLE AUDIENCE THAT EVER FILLED A THEATER CHEERED. CRIED. APPLAUDED. SHOUTED AND WEPT WITH JOY. WHEN THE FINAL SCENE CAME 1,600 PEOPLE WERE ON THEIR FEET PAYING THUNDEROUS TRIBUTE TO THE MAN WHO HAD THRILLED THEM A3 NO OTHER COULD HAVE DONE. SAVE A WASHINGTON. A LINCOLN. OR A WILSON. 0*R SOME EQUALLY GREAT STATESMAN.D. W. GRIFFITH'S SLAST FOUR DAYSK ^ | - - k . - ^Beginning- Monday-THE MIGHTIEST SUPER-CINEMA OF TILEM ALLAMBASSADOR JAMES W. GERARD'SHeartsoftheWorldOlympic Theater NOWA LOVE STORY OF THE GREAT WAR. ACTUAL BATTLE SCENES IN FRANCE.“MY FOUR YEARSIN GERMANYTwice Dally2:30—8:30PRICES—25c. 50c. 73e. 51 Seats Now Selling—All ReservedA “First National AttractionPOWERS' AY° $1.50CHARLES DILLINGHAM TresentarMAT. TO-DAY ANDDSERr 25c to $1 Eves, and Sat. Hat. 25c to $1.50Matinee Promptly at 2:05 Evenings Promptly at 8:05Auditorium TheaterTo-Morrow AfternoonCURTAIN 1:30 SHARP
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