Bisbee daily review., 1916-10-28
REPUBLICAN FILM
 TOO RAW ID SHOW
"WatchfuI Waiting" Insult to President SheIved by Ma
 tionaI Committee.
IT DRAGGED IN RELIGION
Picture Prepared by Hal Reid Showed Convent and Sisters of Charity In Story GrotesqueIy
 Revolting.

It was a remarkable piece of cam
 paign news the New York World let
 loose few days ago-a story of dirty methods to bolster up the political fortunes of a floundering candidate. According to the World the Republi- can National Committee had null tiple reel film prepared, entitled "Watchful Waiting" to be distributed by the committee and displayed under the auspices of, or by arrangement
 with, the various Republican State Committees. The Committees even had prepared circulars advertising the picture to be sent broadcast over the country to County Chairmen.
 According to this circular, the movie" story begins with the be- trothal of John Martin to Marion Lom- bard. Martin, United States troop CT, is called to Mexico, where he is killed by one of Villas followers. Upon the death of her betrothed Marion becomes a Sister of Charity and is sent to Mexico to nurse wound ed soldiers.
 Tn the meantime" says the circu- lar, "the followers of Huerta shoot down the American flag. Mir. Wilson organized; fleet of battleships, which he sends to Vera Cruz to demand that Huerta apologize and salute the American flag. but with orders to. the United States marines to withhold fire. 1''.
 sometime later silla and his fol lowers make a night attack on Colum- bus, N. NJ. Immediately follows the Carrizal fight. Villa and his followers make an attack on the convent and drag the Sisters into the brush. leav- ing them to die. Marion. rather than meet such fate. kills herself
 ''The heads of both the Protestant and Catholic churches sent petitions tO Wilson, whose ears are deafened to their entreaties, and he sleeps peace fully at his desk.
 Views of both Col. Roosevelt ard Gov. Hughes will be taken in con junction with this picture. but cannot be described at this writing"
 Denounced by Reid's Own Friends.
 That film was prepared at cost of $35,000, and it's director, Hal Reid, years ago was sentenced to prison on a charge of assault on a variety ac- tress. He served thirteen months in the Saltwater (AIinn.) Penitentiary when he was pardoned and exonerated of the charge.
 Some of Mr. Reid's friends, when told of his new photoplay, expressed themselves, in substance. as follows:
 'I do not believe that I have ever listened to anything that shows so much real rottenness in politics as this idea of the Republican National Con- mittee."
 Tt is the most disgusting thing I ever listened to-"
 Tt constitutes a,series of deliberate and studied insults to the Nations chief executive"
 "I think it will go a long way to- ward beating Mir. Wilson," said Reid to a reporter for the World. First, I show Villa peering through the bush- es. Then there is subtitle reading Why didn't President Wilson stop the war in Europe by putting an em- bargo on all exports to all European countries alike, except on foodstuffs?
 Next I show Vera Cruz. A launch filled with American sailors is seen the wharf. Then I show the wharf and Mexicans, armed, stand ing there. They fire on the boat. I show the officer in the boat picking up the American nag riddied with bullet holes.
 "And then I show the President asleep at his desk. I show that a.. through. a dozen times or mOre-the President asleep. l show it after the gal and after the nuns are attacked"
 The motion pictures were taken near New York. Some of them were prepared at a studio at Cliffside. N. J. Some of the Mexican scenes were photographed at Sheepshead Bay, near Coney Island. Other pictures were taken at Rockaway Point-the Vera Cruz of the picture.
 "A corker,' Says Colby.
 Everett Colby, as Chairman Will cox's representative. was present at the photOgraphing of number of the scenes. He called the film "a cOrker."
 The day following the Worlds ex- pose, the film was privately screened for George w. Perkins. Herbert Par sons. James B. Reynolds, Candidate Hughes confidential secretary, Chairman Willcox's private secretary and other members of the Republican committee. A pow-wow followed. A couple of days later, an expurgat- ed, denatured and devitalized edition was thrown on the screen for mem bers of the Republican National Com mittee. They found the historic facts" sadly less interesting than the advance notices promised. They did not even gaze on the picture of a pseudo President Wilson asleep at his desk, while the toning down of the scene Of the attack on the Catholic