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Show JWOMANHCOD? 1 TUI GUimr OF THE NAIION "Thousands1 Spent In Securing Battle Scenes J, Stewart DIackton Offers Many sent from the enemy's ship finds its Thrills in Ills Soul-Stirring mark and shoots through the wntcr, Spectacle. leaving behind it the dead whito trail of foam. Finally It comes into con-Perhaps con-Perhaps tho most realistic, vivid tact with the ship and in a few mo-battle mo-battle scenes ever filmed are offered ments hundreds have been claimed by to the audience at tho Lyric theatre a watery grave. Tho men In the boiler on August 8 and 9, when Vltagraph room fight one another like rats' in presents "Womanhood, tho Glory of a hole as they feel their vessel give a Nation," the soul-stirring patriotic a lurch sldeway and realize their tpectacle by J. Stuart DIackton, star- means of escape is cut off. ring Alice Joyce and Harry Morey. When war visits its horros upon As far as tho human cyo can reach any land Its inhabitants become Is the battlefield strewn here and crazed and sacrifices untold nre suf-there suf-there with tho heroes who havo fallen fered by the people. There i3 no In honor that their country might limit it is murderous slaughter and y AXDAMALkStiMVITAbRAFHUST lllllll" live. Tho air is dusky with thn nnlfn of conflict and bombs burst, continually continu-ally rising clouds of dirt as they tear up a goodly portion of tho ground. Then tho trenches with their men losing upwards, rifles nliricd nt th . oachlng foo nre seen airship? encircle the field, dropping polnon-ous polnon-ous gas bombs and other ilmllv missiles mis-siles on tho men fighting beneath. Then come tho decisive nnvnl bit-ties bit-ties after America has concentrated every energy nnd prepared herself for the terrific onslaught of tho foe. The fleets move seaward In a majestic majes-tic line, every gun manned by an expert ex-pert marksman and every boiler attended at-tended by devoted men. Now a shell the side conceiving tho most effective instruments of destruction is naturally natur-ally vistorlous. Then Undo Sam plays his trump card ho sets his "firebugs" looso amid tho enemy's ships and In another an-other few minutes victory Is recognized. recog-nized. These "firebugs" nro small boats steered by wireless so that no men are necessary and filled with gasoline which is set afire when they reach the fleet of the enemy and turn the waters into a curtain of fire. Jlr. Blackton spared no effort or e.xpenso that these scenes might be authentic to the minutest detail in order that tho proper atmosphere ho secured and he was generously given tho co-operation of the IT S. nrmy and navy as far as practicable. |