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Dorothy Phillips in 1.-THE Heart Of HUI
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Dorothy Phillips in "The Heart of HUI
r mainly"
Like a harpist tuning his strings to
their proper vibrations, so did Allen
j. Holubar, when he began The Heart
of Humanity" the super-drama of the
screen based on heart interest in the
world war, which opens at the Isis to-
morrow, weave into the consciousness
of his actors the sublime inspiration
of woman's part in overseas war-zone
activities.
1t was preceding the filming of one
of the most powerful scenes in The
Heart of Humanity" that Director
Holubar gathered about him his cast
and concentrating the effect of his
story on William Stowell, Robert An
derson, Walt Whitman, Pat O'Malley
and others who would be most con-
cerned in his story of wars wonders
and the occurrence of the unexpected,
he told this engrossing tale, every de-
tail OF which was vouched for as fact
and in spirit, is embraced in the theme:
The great war had been on about
fifteen months when Sidney r. Flow
ers. now my technical director, de-
cided there was room for him in
Framed He left Canada with the
American legion in the winter of 1915.
Another cinema man departed
few weeks later and joined Flowers
company. He was Johnnie Thwaites
A third followed-Dan Sewell
THE months went by and they were
forgotten-almost. News reached Uni
versal City that the first of the mod
ern musketeer trio, Flowers, had been
killed. The shock to his friends was
tempered later when it was learned
that, although seriously wounded
Flowers still lived. One day the dead
man" showed at Universal City and
news Of Thwaites and SewelI was
sought of him.
Flowers, now a sergeant, with two
wound bars, thereupon unfolded one of
the strangest narratives from that land
of many DEMONSTRATORS.
I'm June of last year in the heat of
the Messines Ridge fight, the party to
which Sergeant Flowers and Corporal
Thwaites We're attached was ordered
to clean out certain section of Hun
trench. Following the satisfactory
completion Of the assignment, Thwaites
started on the return journey in charge
of a ration squad. An hour later Flow
ers stumbled over the body of his COM
rade. Stripped completely nude by shell
and sprawled in a strange
ly tangled position among broken rails
that had been deposited for battery en-
the body of Thwaites was
indicative of swift death
"Johnnie's pulse had ceased, his eyes
were open and CLASSY. He was one
huge bruise. though no wound was
Dead, pronounced the party's
stretcher bearer. and Flowers, who
had played Damon TO Thwaites' Pyth-
las for many moons. registered an
other grievance against the Hun a
score which he considerably evened
UP in ensuing months.
Then came Flowers turn. He was
land out with a taste of mustard gas
and was wounded while being carried
to the rear. Nine months of hospitals
then back to Canada
Recently an unexplainable and mu-
tual impulse drew Thwaites-no. in
deed. he had not passed out-and
Flowers to the lobby of the Alexan-
dria hotel in Los Angeles.
Say, l left you dead in Flanders,
CALCULATED Flowers.
Read while in the hospital you had
died of wounds" said Thwaites. won
deringly."
Then the curtain fell upon joyous
But Dan Sewell, be it known, the
third member of the trio, lies under
that anonymous terrain Somewhere
in France"