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Show "FREEDOM OF WORLD" IS AT THE STRAND Stirring War Spectacle Will Be Presented Pre-sented for Four Days, Opening This Afternoon. . A great war spectacle, threaded by a love story that rings true, is "For the Freedom of the World," the attraction at the Strand theater for four days, starting today. This stirring drama of the battlefields of France has been pronounced pro-nounced by discerning critics tho most fascinating and interest-compelling war story ever done for the screen, it has never been equaled, it is said, for spectacular spec-tacular magnitude. "For the Freedom of the World" tells the romantic story of the thousands thou-sands of brave young men in the American Ameri-can legion of Canada. It concerns particularly par-ticularly the adventures at camp anil in the field of Gordon Harvey, reformed young idler, ' who wins a lieutenant 's commission and the hand of the beautiful beauti-ful Betty Milburn before duty calls him to France. Betty, distracted at having to part with her husband, passes herself off as a nursing sister and follows, him to France, whore another officer of the legion, once a suitor for her hand, reveals re-veals her presence and her husband's knowledge of it. This, by a general order or-der from headquarters, means death tor them both for a soldier is strictly forbidden for-bidden to have his wife at ihe front. Rather than allow her to face death before a firing squad, Harvey shoots his bride, and, as she falls at his feet, rushes out to fulfill a mission he beliews means certain death. Betty, miraculously, miracu-lously, has escaped fatal injury, and Harvey, though terribly wounded, eventually is rescued from a shell crater under fire by Ralph Perry, the treacherous treach-erous officer who roported'him, and who has been sentenced to death for another offense. Harvey wins the Victoria Cross, and he and his bride, after many vicissitudes, vicissi-tudes, are restored to happiness. |