Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 98, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1919 — ADVANCE STORY NO. 1 [ARTICLE]

ADVANCE STORY NO. 1

“The Heart of Humanity,” to be seen next week at the Princess theater, hinges on the gray background of the last* days of the conflict, a tender and appealing romance of loyal, love and unswerving devotion. The whole production, from beginning to end, is fraught with the spirit of those great days when an anxious world hung breathlessly upon word from the seething battle front in Flanders. It reflects the hush that fell upon civilization when the forces of humanity came to final grip with the ruthless night of autocracy, and it echoes the great cry of joy that sounded round the world when the Hun line crumbled before the Allied attack and fled backward toward the sheltering frontiers of Germany to sue for peace. Into the midst of these stirring scenes of immeasurable portent, there makes its way the gentle romance of Nanette, an American girl reared in the northwood pf Canada, and of her Canadian lover, John Patrica. Joined as war is begun, as war progresses they are separated—to meet again where the giant guns thunder their challenge on the fields of France. Thither John goes as an officer in the Royal Flying Corps and there Nanette,. hearking to the cries of the homeless and motherless children, follows in the garb of the Red Cross. There comes the last great Hun attack—the last terrifying drive toward Paris —when Chateau Thierry became another Verdun and the might of America, thrown into the balance, stayed the enemy, halted him and finally drove him back, until his retreat became a rout and he cried aloud for peace. Graphically, all the hopes, the prayers, the fears, the faith that stirred the heart of humanity in those days of vast import are reflected in the Allen Holubar romance of the war. In the confusion and chaos of attack and counter-attack, John and Nanette, servants of the great cause, drawn by their love, are once more brought together and the scenes shift from the fields of Flanders back to the Canadian lands of the whispering pines where the benediction of the world peace finds them reunited in their love. . , , The role of Nanette is played by Dorothy Phillips, William Stowell is seen as John Patricia and others in the large cast include such wellknown players as Walt Whitman, Robert Anderson, Frank Braiwood, George Hakathom, little Gloria Joy, Margaret Mann and Lloyd Hughes.