Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 94, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1914 — FOR NAPOLEON AND FRANCE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FOR NAPOLEON AND FRANCE

The foolish infatuation of a youthful' soldier of France for a woman of high court standing, though flimsy morality, who seeks to so completely turn his head that she may use him to injure the country far which he had so valiantly fought is the basis of the romance that so absorbingly holds the Interest of spectators of “For Napoleon and France,” George Kleine’s latest phqtodramatic success, which will be the attraction at The Princess Theatre for Saturday, April 25th, afternoon and evening. This photodrama, with its unusual atmosphere of perfume and gunpowder, is in six parts and ranks with “Quo Vadis,” “Antony and Cleopatra,” and ‘The Last Days of Pompeii,” as entertainment of the first caliber. Romantically it is by far the most interesting. Capt. Robert Larive, a handsome atid unsophisticated young warrior, fresh froln laurels won on the battlefield, plunges into the butterfly life of French court, described as a whirlpool of iniquity where virtue and morality were strangers and intrigue and degradation were the fashion. He loses his head and his to a renowned beauty,

.the toast not only of the court, but of the world, though secretly a political adventuress. , When she thinks his infatuation for her transcends his love for his Emperor and 'country, she attempts to use him to serve her questionable ends. The manner in which 'he escapes from her web, and her almost successful plans to cause his death as her price of vengeance, the preserving of his liberty and honor by the Little Corsican, and his reunion with his devoted sister and longlost father, who was nearly instrumental in sending his own son to death, are dramatically portrayed on the screen. Several magnificent scenes enhance the presentation of the photodrama. The reception and ball at the Paris home of Marshall Larive, Madame De Longueville’s apartments, and a ball given by another member of the court, are marvels in the line of photodramatic stage settings and costuming. These pictures are highly educational as they furnish us so vividly living illustrations of men and women of fashion, their costumes and uniforms, and the manners and customs that prevailed during the time of the First Consul. 0