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DRAMAiReturn of “Hearts of World” Is Givfen Warm RdteptionjThe picture of the perhay* decado, has returned to the KJnema for u week. Front the six* of the audleavo that turned out laat night to sit those Who missed it at its first prtHOO-tilon have started to make good their Juan. Griffith, the euper-maa of the motion picture Industry, haa Again given us a masterpiece. With a Umell-ntiaa and a atir of patriotic fervor, not found in The Birth of A Nation/’ with a humanness lacking in “intuientngu, Hearts of the World, stands as a crowning achievement of a master director. It has the good qualities of both the bo earlier productions: the at* tenttoa to detail^ the accuracy-©! set-tipg and the alternate play upon tbt human emotions of laughter and tears, PcopJo are - responsive - to -the- patriotic stimulus in these stirring time a but It was more than that when the big audience rose in a body as the orchestra broke into the .French national hymn when the men of Franco charged the enemy. It was not a studied courtesy tu the French hymn but an enthusiastic r»ut burnt of genuine feeling: The* wofk of the director hail made not a picture but a realization of the spirit ofFrance -_________—— --—The theater management hoe done its part to make a worthy presentation. The orchestra provided for the occasion complemented the picture but did not intrude. The tittle themes fe»r the characters were welt choHcu. * The one for thu baby brother, Peek*o-boo I See You either brought forth a burstsound, possible.The picture Is a monument or progress in the1 movement to give us the art of the silent drama.. * JIALDEZ «itHis Birthright.•Hia Birthright/* the- first or the promised now’ pictures to be' produced by Sessue Hayakawa’s own company, was presented ■ last night at the‘Libertytheater.* lXyaUaiya. has; ions been oneof; the most earnest students of thesilent, drama and the result of his application itf very; much in evidence in thia lirt picture In which ho features as actor'and manager./-- v • '•—Photography- Urge neTai”l»“becoh ling almost per fed t, but there is that Sore of perfection In this that merlta attention, particular in the tinted portions . that rests the .eyo : with a ; vision. of soft blacks and hushed browns and silent reds; • . 7 -Theater l* arrAiigtng to run in * film entitled Buy More. Not cnty is thJs production *aM to be an excellent piece of work for the national bn*re»L but it is a well produced photoplay of merit, and wlH attract much attention from film laving audiences. *The Liberty has recently inaugurated dally singing, »*!** The Slur ttpangled Banner, KLeep the Home Fires Burning/* and other patrioticJsongs, led by Mrs. C. A Murdock. ThisftXdUsne* sinking la becomiwr very popular in Fresno. A Liberty Loan song ia to be introduced soon.OLD MISSOURI.ISTofris Back Again.I Thoro is a lot of local color In the hill at tho Hip this week—aiuri If you arc disposed to jjoko around a 111 tie hit and romombcr that the animals in Xorris'a Animat Circus spent the summer at Zhpp'k Park. n*hil« their owner. Mr. Norria, put in Ills time planting mu a forty nere. furm noar CariitUors lu alfalfa and grapes. If ho la n* good u farmer - atr-hltt -ftci- \ a -a- good- « oL-h e -i»-mighty welcome to Fresno county Alf Kipon, the Scotch ventriloquist, mado a hit With his nix foot dummy and there i« a Xylophone act ihat is greally pleasing in split* of the suogooeyes that the performera exchange *o earnestly and constamlj’.There Is a trifle o£ Hlmdowsiuphingof huiehicr or called up an ^©liQ«J^_J^pcnil^aL^Jn..i,ieri.^and_^.ttafwwfc-- n-ttio-throat-anct-miao-no- ^^P“rb(ll Suincrs h!wk wUUtn it»l c-n n d-patter:-OLD MlSSOL'W./Much care boa been taken In the selection of settings to the,end that Betting and'action always blend and make more pleasing thp goodness of that re? pressioh which characterizes all of thework, of Hay aka wn. .'.The!story- itself deals with a boy in Japan-wi-learns from the old man who: has ..caretf'for him that ho is ihcson of a Japanese mother of good birth and a visiting. - jiaval officer * from America who promised to come back to her and failed to do so. ,The'gibes of his- young u out) try men finally drive • him to a ..determination _to_pome_tO: America .ft nd _hyekou t the man who * deserted his mother . and caused her to take her own life and he lands hero friendless and is caught up in a swirl of German intrigue Unit makes interest to the end of the* six reels. It is an exceptionally good picture. •“Bay More Film.The management of theAdmit Men in Service,It should be said to the credit of the* motion picture theaters of this city* In regard to tho.matter of ajliuiUmg fret of charge man In tho U. S* service in uniform, that they-nearly all of them precede the suggestion of me Fresno Labor Council in pursuing tlus course. The Froajio Photo theater Ua.s admitted men in uniform from the day (hat war was declared with Ger- -many^and managers 'of other houses I sfafis that they.have Teen 7611 owl nuT tills course for some lime. Of course, under the regulation*', of the government the war tax must be paid by the admitted person.'--33*Liberty
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Fresno Bee
Fresno, California, US
Mon, Sep 23, 1918
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