Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1918-05-08
my FOUR YEARS IN
GERMANY FINE FILM
Lcrard's Master Production Won
dcrful Exposure Of Khiscr's
Duplicity.
NOW SHOWING AT GRAND
Patriotic scenes Are Exceptionally
StirrinS Ambassador Makes
'I.Nccllcnt Actor.
tHy s. j. 50

VIZ 'r - go
Tho big appropriation Of AM
bassador James W Gerards my
Four Years In Germany Is the
cheapest picture + ever saw at 81
a throw It's worth five times the
price to every rod bloodod patriot
who loves Old Glory, iB loyal 10 his
country ana hates tho bloody brutal
Germany butchers It's decidedly the
greatest uicture of the year. IT'S got
the most powerful telling, heart
chailcngirI appeal for these Sur
ring times that has ever becn made.
II stirs the blood, arouscs the pas
sion. make you boil with indiBua-
tlon and brings your heart leapinB
to your u unt with wild and ir-
rcsistible Impulse to boiler the roof
off
Ana that's just what the great
crowd at the Grand did constantly
last night, II shouted Itself hoarsc
and kept IN shouting
Did you see THE knlser'--tho
Beast Of Berlin" Most everyone in
Tulsa did and thought II great
picture Take It from me. "The
Kaiser" Is puny une-reclrr com
pared with MY Four Years IN Ger
many" / do not by this mean to
minimize the grip and strength and
excellence Of '"The Kaiser" eitheL
II was Wonderful picture ana de-
served the business II got. Wonder
ful because ot the superb and domi.
mating Chdrar tcrizntion OF the chief
brute by Rupert Julian. II Julian'S
extra ordinary portrayal could be
substituted Tor that OF the actor who
played the kaiser In the Gerard finn
its dramatic power would be much
enhanced but this Is small mat
ter Julian was everything in THE
Kaiser The kaiser Is not everything
In MY Four Years In Germany'--'
for there's James w. Gerard our
nmba ssador, and he's all there, he
liove me The way he read those
plotting hypocritos and on one his
torical and superimpoftant moment
outwitted them makes your heart
leap with JOY and pride Notably
when he secretly urged the British
amba ssador to get the British fleet
out OF the Klel canal the day or
about the day the kaiser started the
big fight
Gerard at Hts Best.
Am bassador Gerard m We
through the film with the reserve
and dignlfitd bearing and courage
n man should have who represents
the United States abroad, and he
surely represented uB.
The only regret had In watching
this master production shoot
through the machine was that the
United States government did not
buy this picture outright and show
It In every city. town and neighbor-
hood free Of charge, for everyone
should see It. And as Uncle sam
did not think to do this you'd better
spend a dollar and sen IT, For be-
lievo me. its well worth your dol
lar, your time and your cheers
Nobody but fool or a traitor can
now question the wisdom OF Uncle
Sam flying at the throat of the Ger
man military monster and crushing
Il out forever now while he's got
good assistance. But there were a
good many misguided sincere people
at the time we declared war who
thought we should have stayed out.
But---get this: They didn't know
what Gerard knew; they didn't know
the insults that had been heaped
upon him az the representative OF
this proud old u. s. A. they didn't
know what President Wilson knew.
All OF II ia told in the picture, MY
Four Years IN Germany" and 1t Is
so convinclngly given that one feels
that we should have jumped I'm much