The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1919-08-30
LABOR LEADERS
INTERESTED IN
"WORLD AFLAME''
Committee From Trades Council
and Members Of Many Clubs
See Picture.
AT ORPHEUM THEATRE
Interest Aroused at. Special
Showing of Picture Con-
cerning Workmen.

At the meeting of the New Haven
Trades Council last week the attention
of the delegates was called to "The
World Aflafne," picture that will be
shown at the Orpheum Theater in the
White City at Savin Rock for four days
beginning on Sunday. A committee
from the Trades Council witnessed a
special view of this picture with mem
bers of the Rotary and Kiwanis clubs,
a number of business men and promin-
ent employers. About 800 were in this
special audience. 1t is expected that
over 10000 people will see this picture
during its presentation at the Orpheum
When the auditorium of the Interior
Department at Washington is used for
the first time to show certain picture
to such government officials as Secre-
tary Wilson and other cabinet officials,
many senators and congressman, and
other notab1es at the capital, and when
that same picture is shown in the state
house in Boston to four governors and
a number of prominent New England
men, also the first time a film was
shown in the place, and when each and
every one of these men is enthusiastic
about the picture, it must be an extra,
ordinary photoplay.
"The World Aflame," starring that
king of dramatic actors, Frank Keenan,,
which is the big picture opening at the
Orpheum, is without question the
greatest and most smashing capita1-la-
Dor play ever produced for the screen,
and both big employers of labor and
prominent labor union officials through
out the country are most enthusiastic
about it.
Every man, woman and child in the
country is concerned with the strikes
and labor unrest prevalent today, and
somewhere almost everybody believes,
there is a solution to this unrest. This
picture takes up the question and gives
the most logical answer there is today.
It is not in the form of propaganda
picture, but it is strong virile drama
of life today with all the qualities that
make up cor1ing dramatic production,
which at the same time brings out the
points that everybody is thinking and
talking about at the present time.
Man to man, capitalism facing
1aborism-hrst with the naked weapons
of greed and hatred-but later showing
the way to get together in harmony and
Observation-Disclosures is the theme of "The
World Aflarne" When Frank Keenan,,
in the role of the mayor, breaks" the
traction strike, and at the same time
shows the strikers the way toward peace
and victory, you will see one of the
most thrilling, most sensational scenes
ever staged for the silent drama.
Every, employer of labor and every
person employed by others, should see
this picture 1t shows the way to bring
both employer and employee eogether.
Other pictures will be on the bill with
"The World Af1ame" Shows each day,
Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday
will be continuous from 2 to II p. m.
On Sunday, as an added attraction, the
Orpheum has secured the Alda-Ball2rd
Trio, direct from the Strand Theater,
New York, where they have been ap-
pearing all season. This trio presents a
high class comedy harmony offering of
an entirely different type, The full
Orpheum Symphony Orchestra will
present fine musical program also