Salt Lake Telegram | 1933-04-26 | Page 8 | Picture of Great War at Playhouse

1 Picture of Great War at Playhouse The World war will vill roll 1011 across the Playhouse screen beginning Thursday Thurs Thurs' Thursday day in a sort sorto of called The Big Drive The film is a chronological arrangement of or pictures pictures pic pie tures excavated from the military archives of the Germans French Austrians British Italians ItalIan and Amer Amer- icons While some som of the sources fr from m which the pictures were taken have already been exploited for the purposes of the cinema this latest entry has hos a completeness and a a chronology that creates the excitement excitement excitement excite excite- ment of history In the making The film has the impact of authenticity where an actual combat scene ends abruptly it is not difficult to picture the invisible climax in iii which the cameraman lost his life liCe The invasion of at Belgium and the bombardment of ot Ypres by the Germans Germans Ger Ger- mans in 1914 provide some of the most interesting sequences in The Big Drive For a few hundred feet the screen shows hows the actual door to door fighting between the Belgians and I the Germans G One scene that is touching and eloquently tragic ic shows an old lady in tears amid the ruins of her home The visitor also finds it interesting to compare the confident confident conti dent invaders of July 1914 with the gaunt and desperate prisoners taken in ia the Argonne offensive The funeral of Richthofen the German German Ger Ger- man ace is shown together with the thelast thelast last trip of oC the Lusitania and President dent Wilson reading his war var message to con congress The activities of the Americans at Chateau Thierry and andSt SL St Mihiel the green troops advancing advancing advancing ing through wheat fields under annihilating annihilating an an- machine gun fire follow fonow scenes of the hardened Brit British ih and French veterans at the Manse Marne the Somme and Verdun One extraordinary extraordinary nary action shot shows Americans and Germans fighting with bayonets in the trenches These pictures tell their own story The silent scenes of The Big Drive themselves speak Impressive Impressively ly on the war