Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-03-20

This city, beginning Monday matinee,
will have the first view of 5000 feet of
moving picture film of the European war,
which arrived in this country straight
from the battlefields of Europe this week
They will be displayed at the Forrest
Theatre twice daily under the auspices
OF the EVENING LEDGER all next week IN
conjunction with the war views, whose
sensational popularity has been thor
oughly established in the last two weeks.
These new pictures. the first to arrive
from the scene of carnage for several
weeks, were taken by specially deputized
photographers under fire and in danger
OF arrest and execution as spies.
Some of the subjects beholders will wit
ness are: The King and Queen OF Ba-
varia on an inspection tour; German ma
chine guns leaving for the front; Prus-
sian prisoners captured at LodZ; intimate
studies of Field Marshal General Won
Hndenburg scenes from the battlehelds
Of the East; Austrian troops on the hrlng
line; the Kaiser in East Prussia, the
havoc and desolatlou after the hghting
at Dixmundell the German Empress WIS.,
iting hospitsl train.
1t will thrill you to see the field gun
In action. In the south of Antwerp-en-
gneers blowing up a bridge actuaily
blocking the German advance at Lys the
swift mad dash of dog-drawn mitrall-
leuses into battle actually going on the
armored motorcar speeding with messages
Of death to Sandomlr; the wicked nelch-
Ing OF long-range guns; the heroic ped
alling of catholic priests on bicycles to
succor the wounded on the field of action;
the armored train at Arvin firing broad
sides as II passes (the daredevil photoB-
rapher was standing on the CAP OF the
engine unprotected. while taxing thls
picturel; motor buses of all nations pass
ing through Ypres on the way TO ltouleFa'
the bombardment of Ghent-to see ootn
sides, the Germans and Allies engaged
In actual battle.
While cavalry and infantry charges are
shown in these new pictures, with des-
perate men storming trenches held by an
enemy equally as desperate, artillery
duels and opposing earthworks peopled
with soldiers firing upon one announcer
there are lighter touches For instance
in almost every picture illustrating the
Night OF non -combatants from the war
torn sections the household pets OF the
refugees impart a touch OF COMEDY Such
an instance is found in the action OF the
friendly and hospitable Belgium dogs well
coming the invading German hosts with
tails awag and yelping In happy chorus,
Again, the children contribute relet
from the sombre and sordid tale OF strlIe,
Tor even in their pitiable flight the rouha
and rugged Flemish youngsters cannot re-
frain from childish pranks that are the
more amusing because of their CHASTITY
background of waste and desolation'
When Myrtle Came 10 Lubin's
George W. Terwilliger, the Luan di-
rector, Is nothing II not thoughtful. Last
week while filming play in st Angus
h. 9-sa las a a
Inis week the snake arrived at the Phila-
eelphia studio as a present to the other
note;
This is Myrtle She is a good screen
performer and the best rattler in Florida.
u you can find work for her, please do
80 | know little of her personal habits,
! directed her from the top of a
step-ladder.
Myrtle" ratified from the moment she
aiIiFed at the studio, but II she thought
she was making hit with the directors
sue FOOLED herself. Barry O'Nell, VINO
makes the Lubin feature productions.
taaely ignored her; Joseph Smiley OBJ
served, Fine snake; throw her down
sewer John Inee said any one was
seieome to his share In herr Edgar
Jones offered to contribute a quart of
sAoFoform IL any one would pour IL In
me cage; Joseph Kaufman said that
What he thought OF her could only be
expressed with the aid OF a Winchester
tlnei Arthur Hoteling said he had seen
100 many of "Myrtle's" relatives In Flor
~ ana refused point blank to even
sooA at herr Arthur Johnson also re-
FUSED to look Myrtle over. but suggested
nat she be sent on to Wilbert Melville
= the Lubin Western Studio at Los An
selss as an Easter present.
Evidently Myrtle was not aeeus-
toned to the unchivalrous action OF the
RAoloplay directors OF the North. As
saske she did everything she could IN
sae way of illustrating rafting and
saaking and striking. and when this
.siled she did the one supreme and dra-
.ztie thing she had left in her rep
s4sasfa=eollsd herself up ike rope ana
go And II VAS then. only then that
p <ot any recognition Ter i vs. 1olz