Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 99, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 April 1919 — ADVANCE STORY NO. 2 [ARTICLE]

ADVANCE STORY NO. 2

“The Heart of Humanity,” which, is to be presented at the Princess theatre on Wednesday and Thursday, with Dorothy Phillips in the featured role, is an eight-reel Allen Holubar production which bring to the screen to inspiring story of woman’s efforts to alleviate the sufferings of the wounded and orphaned and homeless during the days when France and Belbium were scarred and seared by sword and torch, and pounded and rocked by great German guns. It depicts the tenderness of the mother*heart in its conflict with the horrors of war. It pays a deserved tribute to womanhood as expressed in the Red Gross nurse. It presents a side of the war which we have been too prone to overlook. The story of “The Heart of Humanity” was written by Olga Scholl and Allen Holubar and produced by him. It deals with the romance of Nanette, the little ward of Father Michael, parish priest of a community in the Canadian Northwest. While the parishoners are celebratinng the marriage of Nanette and John, the oldest and bravest of the Widow Patricia’s five sons, news comes of the declaration of war by Germany. John answers the call to the colors, and, with three of his brothers, enlists in the Canadian Expeditionary Forces. Eventually the fifth boy goes. John’s letters to Nanette describe the sufferings endured by French and Belgian children so vividly that the mother-heart in Nanette is awakened and she determines to go abroad as a Red Cross nurse. On the war-torn fields of Flanders the little wife meets her husband but once, after which she is captured by the Germans. They are reunited, however, after a series of thrilling scenes, which vividly portray the final halting of the great German drive and then the counter-attack which sent the Prussian hordes fleeing for refuge to their own border.

Through the entire production there runs a thread of heart interest that makes “The Heart of Humanity” the most absorbing love story of the great war yet filmed. The cast in support of Miss Phillips includes such well known sceen favorites as William Stowell, Pat O’Malley, Robert Anderson, Margaret Mann, Walt Whitman, George Brainwood, George Hackathorn and Gloria Joy.