The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1915-06-10
GREATEST PHOTO PLAY
e so FAR PRODUCED
III THE ETERNAL CITY"
PRINCES JUNE 10 AND ~
AUTHOR A SOCIALIST

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Hall Gaines masterpiece. "The Eter
nal City, said by competent critics
to be the greatest photo play ever pro-
duced, will be shown at the Princess
theatre June 16 and II. One of the
principal characters OF the play, "Da-
vid Rossi," Ia comrade Giovanni Clio
lotti, Socialist ex-premier OF Italy, who
was Obliged to flee from Italy when
war was declared on Austria, owing
to his strenuous antiwar activities,
carried on energetically since the out
break of the war last July. Had com
rade Giolotti not made his getaway
the first of the present month. he
would now be mourned, with Jaures,
as a martyr to the cause OF anti-mili-
tarism. a plot for his assassination be-
ing discovered in time for him to flee
from war-mad Italy. baguioes aqsH
Hall caine's Prophecy. tauu3
Romans---Your rulers are preparing
to resist your right OF meeting. and
you will have nothing to oppose to
the muskets and bayonets of their
soldiers but the bare breasts OF a
brave but peaceful people. No mat.
ter. The reactionary government Of
Italy--all the reactionary governments
of Europe-wil be borne down by the
righteous indignation Of the world.
When reforms cannot be effected
without the splitting Of blood the time
for them has not yet come. and It is
the duty OF brave and peaceful peo-
pie to wait for the silent operation of
natural law and the mighty help of
moral forces--David Rossi, deputy for
Rome t a'a 7f baa
So wrote Hall Game In his prophetic
tale, "The Eternal City" nearly fiji
teen years ago. and now the pic
Irritation of that same romance,
photographed in Rome by the Famous
Players company, is to be on view at
the Princess theatre. The recent poll
teal situation in Italy almost paral-
| lels the story. In the latter, David
Rossi, the young Socialist leader and
deputy for Rome, has called a meet
ing in the Coliseum to protest against
reactionary tendencies of the govern
ment, which straightway assigns sol
diery to suppress the meeting, or at
least overawe it into silence. Popu-
lar indignation in Italy over the
activities of the Jingoes was aroused
to such a pitch that the government
was at it's wits ends to prevent open
outbreaks.
! Scenes such as are depicted in the
films have been occurring all over
Italy, and the words put into the
mouth of the young tribune of the
people above quoted appear to be pro-
phetic in view of the circumstances
There is the same excitement in "The
Eternal City" today as there was when
these films were taken last August
right after the assassination of Arch
duke Ferdinand, when Italy was
trembling on the verge of war.
Hall Game As Socialist.
Hall Caine, author of "The Eternal
City," probably inherited his tendency
toward Socialism from his forbears
In tho IcIa NJ Mon which hoe haap
practically commune in it's form of
government in spite of it's traditional
feudal state. The form of it's govern
ment has been described in detail by
the author in his earlier novels up to
The Christian" In this the expert
ences of the Manxman who went to
London and became journalist may
be presumed to be largely autobio-
graphical, and it is but natural that
Hall Game should have found kindred
spirits in the school of the Pre-Rap-
haelite Socialists as they have been
nicknamed because William Morris
was the leader both in medieval art
and advanced ideas. Dante Gabriel
and Michael Rosetti always kept in
touch with Young Italy, and it is rea-
Oily surmised that Hall Game took the
latter as the model for his DR.. Ros-
ELI in "The Eternal City" The
change of name is so slight, and the
character of the kindly teacher of lit
tie Italian waits in London is sketch
ed with all the skill of loving friend.
Socialist the Hero.
David Rossi" is none other, Sc it
is said, than Giolotti the magnetic
young leader of the Socialists of Italy
During the past year Giolotti has been
looked upon as a veritable tribune of
the people, and while the romantic
adventures described by Hall Game
are not on record as having occurred
in Giolotti's career, he is a noble pro-