The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-03
By DOLLY DAIRyMpIE
TT7HRoNGs of people. young and c

6TVHRONGS of people, young and old, rich and poor, who crowded the
 c Tranon theatre Monday to see the first showing of the big war picture, 'Pershinss Crusaders" will bear wit ness when ] say that this tremendous compilation of pictures is the best colicc. tion of war pictures exhibited here since
 the beginning of the European struggIe. 1 Glanciny around in the audience yes terday, you saw many a mother of your acquaintance. many a sister, many a | sweetheart, many a wife, in tho vast throng, drawn hither perhaps in the hure
 that in the big picture she might catch a glimpse of "her boy,' "her sweetheart" l ''her husbano,' valiantly fighting for 1 freedom and democracy, lover there" | But the films the thing to para phrase "NIr Hamlet"
 "Pershings Crusaders" is magnificent
 contribution by the United States govern ment the first to be released, by tbe way under the general title of Follow" ing the Flag to France" and is clever bit of propaganda as well as genuine de :.
 light and joy to the soul, for the story Cf
 the American army from the very first
 day of its mobilization to the floating Of
 the colors on French soil; is shown in de-
 tail, graphically and vividly.
 Through the pictures of Pershirs
 Crusad ers," the spectator gets bird &
 eye view''- of the war, as 1t were, which
 includes not only scenes of fighting, put
 glimpses of all tho activities incidental
 with the beginning and carrying on ot the war, and in the aggregate the pictures
 more perhaps than any other medium yet
 presented give profound impression Of
 the magnitude of the nations war max
 ing, the sizc of the job that our country
 has tackled. and how the great task IS
 being superbly accomplished in every line of endeavor.
 The pictures of "Pershing's Crusaders'
 begins with a representation of drawings and photographs of Gernany's aggres' sion and character, the mailed fist" rls. ing from the land of the Kaiser to grasp the heart of France, appearing dramati. cai1y and d view of the Deutschland In American waters serving to show the length af the German arm.
 Farming and food next are dealt with. showing one of the prime departments or American preparation, scenes incident 10 the raising and training of the draft army follow. Secretary Baker is pictured, draWin the first number of the draft; cantonmepts are seen rising here ana there, almost sover night as it were, ! men as civilians are shown leaving their homes for the leantonments. later the same men as soldiers in training are de- picted; there are wonderfully interestlns' pictures of the interior of Uncle sam tailor shops, where electrically drlven knives cut Caspairs of thicknesses of khaki
 at once; interiors of manufacturing places | for shoes are shown, where tens of thou
 sands of pairs of shoes are being made
 by hundreds of women, whose sons ana | husbands and fathers are in the army. Then comes the pictures of shipbuildins great yards that reach for miles anu miles over iand where no keels were q few months ago, are pictured, showing men putti.g wood and steel together while big steamers slide easily down the
 ways to make the bridge for which Gen | eral PershinS called.
 The, manufacture of munitions IS an