The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-01-27
ble WAR DRAMA
EMPRESS TODAY
Freedom Of the World"
Great Patriotic Film Pro-
d,iction, Thrilling.
ROMANCE OF BATTLE
Story of Husbands Sacrifice
in War Inspired Stag
ing Of Spectacle.

For the Freedom of the World" said
ever conceived. comes to the Empress
theater today, Monday and Tuesday.
The story-a tale OF love and de-
ception. cowardice and heroism OF the
highest order-was written by Captain
Edwin Bower Hesser, an officer in
the American Legion Of the Canadian
expeditionary forces, and produced by
Ira NJ. Lowry. Its scenes are laid in
Canada. the United States. and on the
hattjefelds Of western France.
Probably never before has a war
picture been seen which sets forth In
Z more effective manner a pictorial ex-
position OF the reasons why the United
States has gone into the great world
conflict and gone in to win! In the
course OF the film story spectators may
nee a realistic Photographic reproduc-
tion Of the life their sons, brothers.
fathers and others they love are at
present living In the training camps
throughout the country and the hard
ships they will later be privileged to
undergo in the trenches of the battle
fields OF Europe.
inspired by Press Story.
Captain Edwin Bower Hssser, au-
thor OF For the Freedom of the
World" was in the American Legion
of the Canadian army when the great
film story was written. One Of the
main events In the plot came as an in
spiration from a short newspaper squib
read by a brother officer one night IN
camp.
TT was strange" said Captain Hes
ser, "how it all started. My com
ynanding officer, Lieutenant Colon b. J.
Mccormick. o. c.. 213th battalion,
American Legion. happened to read a
note in newspaper to the effect that
a French army officer had killed his
wife because she had persisted in see
ing him at the front in violation of
the order that no women We're to be
allowed to see their husbands in the
fire zone.
Follows Suggestion.
major Fowler, second in command
Of our battalion. thought that this was
decidedly unfair. and general dis
Mccormick knowing me to be movie
director said. sHesser, you ought to
make film out OF that'--and l did.
THE story as written embraces a
similar incident. and as a whole tells
the story of the thousands upon thou
sands of Americans who enlisted in
the Canadian army to fight the big
fight, even before America entered the
war.
II feel that it should set at rest for
all time the arguments regarding why
we are in the war. l want it to show
the American public that we are at
war with people whose brutality and
barbarism, the result of their govern
mental system. is something that every
one of us must hate and do our best to
stamp out.
1.-The picture Is frankly an appeal
to young men to do their duty in the
fighting line and to old men to do
their duty as well by subscribing for
every Liberty bond that they possibly
can. The men who are giving their
lives are entitled to support-they are
giving their all, their lives. Surely
those who stay at home can do as
much. Their duty is plain. l wish
that the Liberty bond committees
would put an information table in the
theaters wherever my picture is
shown. think that results would
warrant the STEP"