The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-31
Will Run for Entire Week Beginning Next Sunday Afternoon at 12:30
 O'Clock
DAYS PROCEEDS TO GO TO DAY NURSERY
 AND MERCY HOME
Moving Pictures Made by Intrepid Photographers of New York Sun on the Firing Line and
 Show All Details
 of Battles

The Age-Herald in conjunction with the New York Sun has arranged for the pro duction in Birmingham of the most fla nous moving pictures yet made. of the present war
 These pictures are the most realistic method of learning Just what this war means. and were produced at great ex- ,pense and hazard.
 They will be shown for an entire week at the Jefferson theatre. The first exhi- bitions will be on Sunday, from 12:90 to [ o'clock, and the net proceeds of the en- tire day will be equally divided between the Mercy Home and Day Nursery. two of Birminghams best known charities.
 Few of the Scenes
 Recital of few of the hundreds of scenes shown will give some idea of the scope of the pictures. These include:
 The arrival and disembarkment of
 the British expeditionary force in
 France, the arrival of East Indian
 troops and Turlsos, Belgian troops in
 action at Namur, the artillery duel at
 Louvain, the Queen of Belgium and
 the ladies of the court acting as nurses
 in field hospital, German zeppelins
 flying over Paris, Belgian soldiers
 firing on German airships and the de-
 struction of an aeroplane gathering
 of the wounded and their removal from
 the field and transit to hospitals con
 valescent soldiers joking and playing.
 the siege of Antwerp with shells ex-
 ploding almost over the head of the
 photographer. the ceremonies attend
 ant upon the surrender of Brussels,
 the allies digging trenches, battles rag
 ing from opposing trenches that are
 plainly visible, battle for the posses
 sion of a bridge, dynamiting of bridges
 and culverts to retard the German ad-
 vance, the allies retreat to the gates
 of Paris. Belgian dog-drawn light ar
 tillery and mitrailleuse guns going into
 action, armored motor cars on the
 move and In action, siege guns and
 rapid firers in action, field telephone
 service in operation directing the fire
 of huge guns, burning of villages and
 cities, which are shown crumbling be-
 fore gunfire and flames pontoon bridge
 building and the movement of an army
 across such a frail structure under
 fire, railroad train destroyed by a
 mine while crossing a bridge over the
 River Lys, shells from British war
 ships battering down Slype, armored
 railroad trains in action at Arvin, ma
 rines on the firing line at Lens.
 '.snipers'' resisting the invaders at
 Estairies, the bombarument of Ghent,
 a charge by leo Belgian lancers from
 which only Ss returned, and a thou
 sand other features of equal interest.
 Nothing has ever been undertaken in graphy approaching In educational and historical value the New York Evening Sun moving pictures of the war. For the first time in the history of the hu- man race peaceful noncombatants may sit in the comfort of a theatre chair and witness all the details of civilization in convulsion and history In the making.
 Made on Firing Line
 These moving pictures are secured on the actual firing line by intrepid and fearless photographers, who faced shot and shell, hunger, cold disease, and the innumerable horrors and inconveniences of war to serve their news clients. The sequence in which these moving pictures follow gives the observer the whole story of the war at glance, liberal educa- tion of what is going on today.
 The city commission yesterday formally granted The Age Herald a permit to show at the Jefferson theatre Sunday these famous war pictures with the understand ing that the net proceeds of the Sunday exhibition will be divided between the Day Nursery and the Mercy Home.
 w. H. Jeffries, advertising manager of The Age-Herald, appeared before the com mission and explained the proposition A motion was made by Commissioner Ward to grant the permit of the city for the conduct of the show from 12:a0 to o'clock Sunday afternoon and Judge Lane voted aye. MT. Weatherly voted no with the statement that he wanted 1t "under- stood I am In sympathy with what you are doing, but I desire to vote no on all such propositions" MT. Weatherly stated later that he thought line would have to be drawn somewhere in the operation of the Sunday shows and for that reason he proposed to vote for nothing in the future but the operation of the regular motion picture theatres on Sunday for the benefit of one of the charity organiza-