The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-14
MEN, WOMEN
 AND THINGS

| AlNl ! I1l1NtI0
 I do not know how the news of the signing of the armistice affected you who read this, but the whole of Mon day I was in a kind of trance. l just wasn't fiji for ordinary duties.
 I stood for an hour and ten minutes as the parade passed I had been on my feet nearly all day just walking ainlslessly around watching the little groups which formed on the street cor ners. in the drug stores and hotel lob bies.
 Tuesday came and I found that was dog tired and all let down I do not know just exactly how a fellow feels who is getting over drunk, but if it is as trying on the nerves as getting over spiritual spree, then it is some
 exhausting performance, and I don't blame anyone for getting astride of the
 water wagon.
 NOW, l CODh d CuIlCQS Ndy to tia ny
 self of my lassitude, for I went to see
 the greatest war picture which has yet
 been produced. It was Griffith's mas terpieee, and was IS months in the mak-
 ing, a really phenomenal production
 and one that ought to be seen by every one who has desire to visualize the awful conflict which is drawing to g close.
 would have missed 1t if Dolly Dalrymple" hadn't have urged me to see it. I knew that she was an expert when it came to passing judgment on motion pictures, for she doesn't mind and then she sees the best which are shown in Birmingham. I took her tip and went Tuesday night, and righ glad I am that did so, for 1t will live in my memory long after I have forgotten much that has been written about the great conflict.
 "The eye gate" is the source of much of the information which sticks with
 us long after the ear has forgotten
 the words of the poet, preacher. or poli- tician; yes, even those of the teacher. suppose. this is why one of the great est of the war historians, Dr. Francis Treyelyan Miller, who is with corps of experts compiling the Standard Con- temporary History of the Great War. so heartily congratulated MT. Griffith on his supreme triumph Hearts of the
 World" now showing at the Jefferson theatre
 He confesses in his letter that tho board of historians at present engaged lin compiling the monumental work on the great war has produced 19 volumes, but that they feel it a privilege to greet him as the greatest war historian Now I can see why this admission is made, for in a single picture like Hearts of the World" MT. Griffith lhas given a vital, human record that
 embodies the spirit and the soul of tho war with deeper reality than can be shown in any set of books, it makes no difference how we'll written for edited they may be. It struck me as marvellous that
 could sit comfortably in dimly. light ed theatre and in little more than two hours have unrolled before my eyes in almost life-like reality the world drama in which nations were locked in deadly conflict for supremacy. That the world tragedy was made real was iswept along with the picture from the hour when the great producer was bowed out of Downing street by Lloyd George with the seal of the English lgovernment upon the momentous un- |dertaking to the time when after the shock of battle. peace for the moment lhovered over at least one part of the lwar area.
 | No wonder that MT. Griffith took | risks of men and money to make pie
 ture which would live, for the dominant lfgure in English life the little Welsh
 man. took him by the hand in parting, Say Aho Oo "Ail Qo tAiS u AAQ Au-
 manity. The idea back of your splendid story is a message to civilization that it's fight will not be in vain. Let me be the first to predict that when you
 have completed your Aahors you will lhave produced masterpiece which will
 carry message around the worid--a
 story which will inspire every heart
 with patriotism. with love of country.
 with the great cause for which the
 civilized nations of the world are new lighting in France"
 1 This is no mere boost for any thea !tre. but is written because I want
 everyone who can to see 1t teek my lwife, and am going to send nay boys,
 and would have taken my mother-in- flaw, but she saw 1t in the summer at
 Pittsburg. After you see it you will lknow why the soldiers at the front lwere eager to acarvy on.", and why they wouldn't listen to any cessation
 of the lighting until Germany was ready