The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-09-18

his own, and added:
 MT. Wilson could have stopped the war in a few weeks if he had done that. I often lay awake at night and think of the thousands who have been killed and of the blood that has flow ed simply because he would not put his pen to such document" Having thus indicated the possess sion of an active imagination Reid went on telling of the scenario: ] Next show Vera Cruz. A launch filled with American sailors Is ap- preaching the wharf. show a closeup of the Americans in the boat Then I show the wharf and the Mexicans, armed, standing there. They fire on the boat. show the officer in the boat picking up the American flag riddled with bullet holes" Shown Alseep Many Times | MT. Reid explained that he played the American Consul himself and de- manded an apology from Huerta- In his photoplay Huerta. played by Will liam Cone, exclaims dramatically: 'If your Gringo President wants an apology, he can come here and get | it."
 And then" said MT. Reid with a pleased smile. 'I show the President asleep at his desk. show that all through the piece-a dozen times or moreA+the President asleep. show 1t after the attack on Columbus and after Carrizal and after the nuns are attacked"
 l But, having gone a little ahead of his story, Mir. Reid returned to the VerA Cruz incident.
 {; "I next show" he said, ''the funeral of the seventeen men who were killed there. The funeral took place here, you know. show the funeral and the President riding in a carriage, and follow that with this line: i And he had the effrontery to at tend the .funeral.y
 1 MT. Reid went on to say that he had woven a love story lightly through the Historical incidents" The story was that of a young girl engaged to a young man suddenly ordered to the Eborder. He is killed and she enters a convent. 6ai
 All 'sBased on History" I
 'evfIla sees her and becomes en- armored of her." explained MT. Reid. ''vllla and his men attack the convent and the sisters run away. I show the Mexicans pursuing them. catching them and. dragging them into the brush, where they are assaulted. T'- 'Ts there Any authority for that scene?" MT. Reid was asked l "I have used no incident in this that is not based on history" he replied. T have used the incidents that Col. Roosevelt has spoken about and writ ten about many times, and which have been been contradicted. You can't deny history. have used the very incidents that MT. Wilson him. self referred to In the letter he sent to Carranza. Here, wait a minute. '' Turning to his typewriter, MT. Reid wrote the following and handed it to the reporter: HV
 Had taken MT. Wilson's own let ter to Carranza, in which he recited to Carranza the outrages perpetrated in Mexico, in which he said. T have given you 47 reasons why I could have made a thousand reel picture, with MT. Wilson as the scenario writ er."
 -.Ar. Reid presumably meant the note sent to Carranza on June 20, not by MT. Wilson but by Secretary of State Lansing. A perusal of this document fails to disclose any reference what ever to 1T incidents, though the note does state that the government of the United States would have had no diff hculty in finding during this period of revolution and disorder many plaus- fble arguments for intervention in Mexican ahairs.T lt&
 The interruption broke the cfronol- ogy of MT. Reid's photoplay recital It was recalled that he had been speak ing of the assault on the nune | "Oh, yes,' he continued. "then. inn mediately I. flash, on the screen the picture of Mr Wilson asleep at his desk. You see the connecticut
 Another incident introduced, said MT. Reid. is the raid on Columbus. This depicts family of Americans on the porch of house. There are fa- ther, mother and little child. A Mex ican r1shes up and shoots the child, who falls dead behind her mother.
 Then again." said Mir Reid, q show the President asleep at his | desk" s'
 MT. Reidfs narrative was frequently broken into by himself He told h1. own views of the political situation; of his close friendship for Col Roose- welt, and of his knowledge of incidents in Washington that have had effect on the Presidents cabinet Then Mrs. Reid came in and the information was vouchsafed that she plays the part of the nun who was in love with the sol- dier and who later attracted the at tention of Villa.
 Nun Ends Her Life.
 What happens to herr" Mir. Reid was asked.
 Oh he answered, "there is a scene in the brush. She has no revolver and so she seizes Villas and shoots her. self"
 MT. Reid did net say, at this point, that he again flashed on the screen the picture of President Wilson asleep
 The playwright said that in his pie ture he showed the house at Richmond Hill, L. T., in which Huerta lived after The was driven out of Mexico.
 Its a palace" he said, and dweIt on the fact that the President permitted the deposed Mexican ruler to come into this country.
 If he had done the right thing" said the Republican national commit tees scenario writer, ''he would have declared Huerta an undesirable alien and have kept him out of the coun- ] try"
 MT Reid went on to say in this con- nection that in his play he shows how the President lifted the embargo 1o let Villa get sufficient ammunition to destroy the Carranza forces. The p,c-