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Show "TO HELL WITH THE KAISER," ALHAMBRA SUNDAY At tho death of Frederick III, of Prussia, his son Wilhelm II, succeeds him. The decay of the Hohenzollorn family is exemplified in the monarch's withered arm, as well as in the weak degeneracy of the- Crown Prince. Bismarck, Bis-marck, Frederick's adviser, shows the Kaiser some secret plans for subjugating subjugat-ing the different countries of the world. In the spring of 1914 the Kaiser and his war council decide to put these plans into execution. Zeppelin submits sub-mits his plans for air supremacy, Von Tirpitz makes known his scheme for submarine warfare, and Von Hinden-burg Hinden-burg discloses his military projects. Intending to perfect wireless operations, opera-tions, the Kaiser sends for Professor Monroe, an American. Professor Monroe and. his daughter Alice are taking leave of Alice's younger sister Ruth, who is being educated edu-cated in a Belgian convent. Professor Profes-sor Monroe has discovered a wireless invention, by means of which messages mes-sages can be sent direct without being be-ing intercepted. Although Winslow Dodge, an attache of the American legation, holds first plr.ee in Alice Moriroe's heart, one of her admirers is Rupert Graubel, an actor In the Royal Theatre. Graubel is ordered to impersonate the Kaiser, so that Wilhelm may attend to more important im-portant things while Graubel is appearing ap-pearing in his stead before the populace. popu-lace. The actor boasts to Alice of tho honor that has been conferred on him. The Kaiser having demanded Professor Profes-sor Monroe's discovery, he apparently complies by bringing a package to court. However, it contains nothing more secret than the American flag, which the Kaiser in baffled rage unfolds: un-folds: The scientist refuses to make known his secret, and with Alice leaves for Belgium. In the meantime, scenes of horror have taken place in Belgium, and Ruth Monroe has fallen a victim of the Crown Prince. She is dying when her father and her sister reach her. As a party of German soldiers passes, with the Crown Prince at their head. Monroe rushes out and denounces him. He is shot down. Ruth dies, and Alice swears vengeance. Sho returns to Berlin, in pursuance of her plan to wind Graubel around her little finger J to reach the Kaiser. Wilhelm, consulting his war map, makes a partition of the countries of tho world, giving one to each member mem-ber of his council. To the Crown Prince he gives tho United States. A year later the Americans are in the front line trenches. Dodge is in the aviation corps. Graubel has introduced in-troduced her to the Crown Prince. She follows him to Belgium and notifies noti-fies Dodge to come with an aerial force when she gives him the signal. She returns to her lodging to receive the Crown Prince. The Crown Princo informs her that his father, the Kaiser, is to meet him after midnight at a certain spot in the woods. Ho attempts to forco his odious attentions on Alice, and avenging aveng-ing her sister, she kills him. She then gives Dodge the signal and ho comes with an army of aeroplanes. Wilhelm is captured and imprisoned, and then banished on a barren island. There his only associates are swine, since ho is not fit to associate with human beings. He goes mad, and leaps into the sea. Arriving in hell, Wilhelm is greeted I by Satan, who abdicates in his favor,' spying that the Kaiser's tortures aro I more fiendish than any he has everl been able to devise. ' |