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Show HE KAISER, THE ' BEASTJHEM CAST THE KAISER . . .RUPERT JULIAN Capt. von Wohlbold. . . .Allan Sears Capt. von Neigle N. de Brullier Bethman-IIolweg Lon Chaney Admiral von Tirpitz . . . Marc Fenton Marshal von Hindenburg. .Jay Smith Gen. von Kluck Harry Carter Col. Schmiedecke. .W. H. Bainbridge Capt. von Hancke. .Harry von Meter Admiral von Pliscott, Walter Belasco Geu. Erick von Falkenhayn, Ed. Clark Gen. von der Goltz W. Cob urn Gen. von Eessler K. Painter Gen. von Deddingen . .F. Beauregard Gen. von Haetzendorf. . .E. Corcoran Gen. von Ruesselheim . . . . W. Harris Capt. Kovisch.. Capt. Anderson j Dr. von Gressler -Winter Hall j Marcas, the blacksmith Elmo Lincoln I Louis Lomenie Robert Gordon i The President Orlo Eastman Ambassador Gerard . .Joseph Gerard Gen. Pershing Alfred Allen ( i Gen. Ilaig. ........ II. Barrows : Gen. Jo If re. ..." Harry Holden Gen, Diaz Pedro Soso ( Kirg Albert Jack MacDonald ; i Little Jean. . . .Master Georgie Hupp j Hansel Master Frankie Lee; Gabrielle Ruth Clifford The New-Made Bride Betty Carpenter I Grandmother Marcas . ... I ..... . Ruby Layfayettej lEertha'vdn Neigle, Gretchen Lederer Gretel Mistress Zoe Rae THE STORY I By Elliott J. Clawson . ' Summer 1914 and -the world 'was at peace love and friendship ruled the glad business of every dayi. God 'looked down from Heaven and was pleased. Gentle breezes fanned the swaying fields of grain; the world hummed with the pleasing sound of bees and birds and laughing girls. Marcos, tlie -blacksmith of Lou-vain, Lou-vain, v.'.' r, a 'mighty man. This man, Marci?, live 1 in faith and love and fiicndship, and, by the sweat of li is brow, had won peace and prosperity. There was another man who lived in a palace in Berlin. He was twile ; a king, eighteen times a duke, twice ' a prince, nine times a count be- i sides, being a bishop William of Hohenzoliern, King of Prussia, Em-I Em-I eror of Germany. The blacksmith of Louvain was a ; better man than the Hohenzoliern. ! The blacksmith owned but two suit3 1 ':u clothes, one for wcrV vral one for j', lie "Sabbath. The Kaher owned .three hundred and si::ty-six. ! August ls-t , 1914, a'!.! William of j 1! bfc--m 11cm spc're the word that I set the world afire; came the crash, 1 lit r!c, colorr.al staggering. ' J.-.y d el, hope flc.-l. (lev elation bc-: bc-: c-uuc sui renie. ' ITj on that day the world pa-ed into in-to twlkrht. The I. artful ar.tccracy of Prussia h-.'d spoken. An fiirtocracy of lvite- ' which for d carte had been dftlving a grc.it people, poisoning tlieir mind-', preaching the virtue' and necessity ne-cessity of war; had applied the torch j of Devastation. |