Show BLOO VERDUN BATTLEFIELD fILMED S S S S S e S S OFFICIAl FRENCH WAR PICTURES ARt ARE COMING HERE HISTORY J I IN l THE BLOOD OF MILLIONS S SCENES S CENES from The Fighting French Frencl the h official ial war pictures picture of the French government which will be shown at the Liberty theatre next net week I No I 1 A 1 A company of infantry going into action Note the intense look on the faces of the soldiers No 2 2 Two 2 Two French nurses going to a newly death covered battlefield in their a automobile No 3 A 3 A Fr French artilleryman resting his horses on the way to the front S S p S S I if 4 i 11 S S I II I 7 5 d fr 4 i id 4 d It S S S 1 S S rj r j 1 tI S SS 9 J S S S S f c r 4 i S 5 r S 4 y P 1 t yi r d c 4 Wonderful History in Celluloid Secured by W. W H H. Swanson for Presentation at the Liberty Theatre Theatre The The- atre Next Sunday Is Named The Fighting French S S T ER is i's something refreshing something that is restful and 1 speaks of I f freedom freedom and security when you see ee the flag of the States f m the breeze When you go t to the Liberty the theatre t e next pt Sunday find and se see he F Fighting French Frinch the Fren French h governments government wonderful official motion m pictures of the events transpiring transpiring- behind the firing line when hen you see the dead and dying dring the mammoth e engines gin s of destruction the and ruin you will be glad tos to tose s see se e the American American flag And n 1 Old Glo Glory waves in the the breeze wl when en t tile the e end nd of these pictures is reached It Is is then the feeling of relief comes For For while witnessing these wonderful wonder wonder- ful films recording the war war the the actual events authorized b by the French general genral genral gen gen- eral ral staff you you grip grip- pur your chair Not for a moment do your eyes leave the he I screen You are there right in northern north north- ern eln France or orin in the Sp southern thern mountains moun mound in the trenches and the foemen are dimly visualized In the pictures You are arc on the stained blood-stained fields of ot Verdun on an n the nearby hills where the terrific fighting of ot the past week has been going on S You forget you are in America where all is serene and when the American flag waves at at the end you come to yourself with a start It is then the full impact of the scenes you have witnessed witnessed wit wit- takes effect These pictures were especially secured secured se se- se S cured by W. W H. H Swanson president o othe oft the Swanson Theatre circuit and the thai owner of the Liberty theatre for th the I reopening of ot that house under its new policy They are the first real war pictures pic plc- pic- pic tures tures films direct from the battlefield which will be ho shown in this city From time to time news films have carried sn snatches here and there of ot preparations 13 of ot the various armies engaged in the fighting or poses illustrating the operations operations opera opera- of ot guns etc But actual pictures of the fighting itself the grim business of war in operation h ve never before been shown here The pictures tell how the big guns work havoc how the airmen drop the deadly bombs how the poison polson gases come like a cloud the cloud the silent death the soldiers call it how the men live work and play in the trenches how the wounded are cared for and how those who are arc captured are dealt t with The films were taken by bv soldier soldier- cam cameramen photographers cameramen photographers from the ranks who were assigned to the task the same as other men were assigned to the operation of the units which make makeup makeUP up a great army They filmed only actual events not a pose was made for the camera camer f because the pictures are a part o ot the French war records At all times the camera men braved death to perform their task In fact tact the set of pictures which are re to be shown here heTe represent the lives of ot six camera operators who were WE're instantly killed while turning turnIng- thA cranks on their ma rna hines chines T Three ree cameras were blown blown- to atoms by bits of ot slieR shell on the battle battlefield battlefield battle battle- field I ld wh where re t these e e. e p pictures i res Vere were mal made e. e The pictures will rill be shown for one week at th the Liberty theatre performances performance perform perform- ances arIces 1 being given once nce in th the afternoon afternoon afternoon after after- noon and once in the toe evening A A- full Orchestra will give an artistic interpretation interpretation tation of the pictures and all the necessary necessary necessary essary stage effects will be on hand to give the correct touch to the intensely human hUllan realities revealed by this celluloid cel eel history All seats eats in tn time the a afternoon afternoon after after- ter- ter noon being 25 cents cent and in the e evening 25 and 50 cents D During the three weeks the Liberty has las as been closed the house has been completely remodeled and rede New carpets have been laid and a beautifully appointed rest room and ad nursery r installed The seats are of the highest grade opera chairs and the full screen will b be completely visible iron from ever every section of ot the house In Us completed form the time Liberty with its up-to-date up projection machines Its Us ventilation system its sanitation and general equipment will be alone in its its' class In the United States Only which are accredIted accredited with being master productions will find place in the new theatre The first of the big productions is The Fighting Fr French which opens next Sunday aft aCt Then will follow at intervals of ot f one week Twilight Sleep actual experiments in th the wonders of ot emancipated emancipated eman eman eman- motherhood The Fighting Germans the official films taken under Under un un- un der the direction 9 of f the time emperor of ot Germany The Time Neer Ne'er Do Well the film version of ot Rex Beachs Beach's famed novel The Vernon Castles the fa famo famous famous fa- fa mo s Ne New York dancers in Sn their masterly mas mas- terly tony exposition of ot the new dances Annette Kellerman the production Just being completed by the Fox company and which reveals eeals more startling and beautiful femininity than any producer has ever eyer dared before I I I I S 5 S- S |