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GREAT FILM SHOWN
Captain A. E. Lathrop gave the city
of Anchorage “Civilization.” For this
1,400 people of the city, for the Em
press will be crowded again tonight,
are indebted to him and he has won
their appreciation and gratitude.
That part of 4th avenue in front of
the Empress theatre last night was a
replica of Broadway. The avenue was
lined several deep with theatre goers
and by 7:45 o’clock every seat in the
house was sold. This left over 100
belated people vainly clamoring for
admittance to see the truly wonderful
photoplay “Civilization” that found
inception in the master mind of
j Thos. H. I nee and was produced only
after a year’s labor and at an expense
of one million dollars.
The wise ones went early and were
delightfully entertained by an accom
plished pianist until the curtain rose
promptly at 8 o’clock. Mrs. Richmond,
always an artist, was truly inspired
last night; she seemed in perfect har
mony and accord with the environ
ment of the scene and her inception
of appropriate selections as different
stages of the play flashed by was
inspiration that could only come from
the soul of a daughter of Pan.
Civilization is a moral allegory and
was produced in the cause of world
■ wide peace; a play on humanity and
j dedicated to the sorrowing mothers of
the countless dead who have lost their
I lives on account of the greed, avarice
! and ambition of a Nero. The scenes
for the most part were laid in the
picturesque land of one of Rarr Mc
Cutcheon’s mythical kingdoms and
portrayed an ambitious ruler who
would stop at nothing, not even the
sacrifice of human lives, to gain his
end.
After the preliminaries the first
scene showed a field in Arcadia where
everything was in harmony; the peas
ants happy and contented; children
were romping and playing; the men
and women peasants busy and the
whole one of peaceful serenity.
Then came the war cloud; the gath
ering of the peasants to the village
and the excitement of the populace.
The scenery was rapidly shifted to
the capital where parliament was
in session to pass upon a supposed
wrong. But all the time the great
steel mills and factories were work
ing an army of men who were turn
ing out demons of destruction, for the
king had long ago decided upon con
quest for gain. Parliament left the
ultimate decision to the king and the
answer was war and this word was
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emblazoned across the troubled skies
in letters of red that was to come
from the blood of his people.
Without love there is nothing really
complete and “Civilization” is com
plete. One of the king’s subjects of
royal blood completed the invention of
a submarine that was afterward des
tined to revolutionize war methods.
As a reward for the successful com
pletion he was to marry the woman
of his choice who was of plebian
stock. War was declared; regiment
after regiment, horse and foot, ac
companied by armored cars, cannons
munitions and airolineplanes left the
capital for mobilization on the border.
Rapidly in succession followed dra
matic and realistic scenes of battle
and carnage; charge and retreat with
death, ruin and destruction following
in the scarlet trail of war. Refugees
fleeing attacked cities; the destructive
work of the airolineplanes on the red
cross corps, in fact every terrible
thing connected with war was fear
fully and wonderfully portrayed.
Again the scene shifted to the origi
nal village and the bulletins naming
the dead were posted. Here was the
scene of grief and sorrow. The con
script call came and the mothers were
not Spartans, for they clung cobbing
ly to their loved ones, but the king
must have more lives.
After one year the lovers meet and
the hero is placed between love and
duty to his tyrant king. He returns
to his submarine and while at sea
gets a message to attack an ocean
liner. He sees the awful picture of
the death of women and children if
he carries out the order of his king.
Humanity wins and a fight follows
with the balance of the crew in which
the submarine is destroyed and he
alone saved from the wreck and by
the sailors of the ship he was ordered
to destroy.
In the shadow of a head that very
much resmbled the kaiser’s the hero
drops an unfathomably depth to a ver
itable “Dante’s Inferno,” where the
chained, naked and deformed lost
souls are praying for deliverance.
It is truly wonderful that these pic
tures can be depicted; both the meet
ing of Christ with the hero and the
entire setting of the scene is beyond
description. The hero is blessed and
pardoned in the name of humanity and
returns to earth in the spirit of Christ
but in form of man to save the world
from further useless bloodshed and
the continuance of war.
He is resuscitated, to the delight of
the king, who glories in the thought of
vengeance, for the hero has been
branded a traitor.
Continung the war scenes, the cap
ital is subject to a combined attack of
land and air craft and suffers materi
ally. This beggars description and
would take the rhetoric of an Irving.
Suffice to say the capital was parti
ally demolished and the inhabitants
flee to safety. In the language of the
immortal Sherman, no one in the audi
ence but what involuntarily said, “War
is hell.”
In the meantime the king is offered
a protocal of peace and for a time re
fuses. The hero once more in the
flesh of man, preaches peace to the
populace and moves the people and
especially makes his inspired appeal to
the mothers of men. A riot is in
cited by his powers of eloquence and
right and he is brought before the
king, who brands him a traitor to his
country and passes yie sentence of
death.
The court martial resembled the one
Christ was subjected to before Pontus
Pilate but his efforts had not been un
availing and several of the nobility
werei imbued with the spirit of peace,
but still the king remained implacable.
While in the dungeon his spirit rep
resented by the Star of Bethlehem,
shines from his cell window and sends
out messages of hope and peace to the
women of the world who band togeth
| er and make supplications’ to the king.
| The king refuses their united en
treaties.
Scourged to his dungeon, the hero’s
soul takes its flight to God and the
king is summoned to the cell of death,
where he, too, sees the handwriting
on the wall. While gazing on death
the king sees the spirt of the hero
take the form of Christ and follows
Christ through various scenes of war,
destruction, carnage and the bodies of
his soldiers, cold and stiff in death.
Death, famine and scurvy mark the
land of utter desolation caused by a
war that will result in inevitable fail
ure to the king. To the very throne
of God he follows the spirit and learns
that his name is written there in let
ters of the blood of humanity. The
king’s vision is over; he realizes the
uselessness of the war and that his
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! apibition can not be realized; that his j
greed for more power at the sacrifice j
of human lives is wrong.
He repents and signs the peace pact;
to the gratification of his subjects.
Hope—the new day dawns and once j
more there is peace in the land. The;
soldiers return and again the Arca
dian fields are shown and joy and hap-1
piness reign supreme once more in a
contented country.
At the finish the happiness of the
last scene was contagious and the vast
audience who had sat hushed and calm,
enthralled at the wonderful produc
tions, also awakened to a new feeling
of satisfaction and contentment and
realized that they had witnessed a
masterpiece, carrying throughout the
moral of man’s humanity to man and
the inauguration of a world wide
peace.
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