Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 100, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1919 — ADVANCE STORY NO. 3 [ARTICLE]

ADVANCE STORY NO. 3

The noble sacrifice of a little wife who left the picturesque beauty and quiet of a home among friends in a little community in the Canadian Northwest to minister to the wants of homeless and orphaned children during the days when the flaming torch of Prussian ruthlessness was being carried by war-maddened hordes over the once-beautiful valleys and hills of France and Belgium, is the dominating theme of “The Heart of Humanity" the eight-reel production by Allen Holubar in which Dorothy Phillips scores the most distinctive triumph of her screen career. This feature will be presented at the Princess theatre on April 30, and May 1, with a supporting cast of more than ordinary excellence, including such favorites as William Stowell, Robert Anderson, Margaret Mann, Pat D’Malley, Walt Whitman, George Hackathorn, Gloria Joy and * others. The story of the play is by • Allen Holubar and Olga Scholl and was adapted for the screen by Mr. Holubar. Nanette, ward of Father Michael, the parish priest, and wife of John Patrica, oldest and handsomest of five sons of the Widow Patrica, in the Canadian Expeditionary Forces, is so moved by John’s descriptions of the misery and suffering he has found among the children of France and Belgium, that she decides to go abroad as a Red Cross nurse. She leaves her own baby at home and en-

lists. * In a convent in Flanders that has been converted into a refuge for orphaned and homeless children, the little wife works night and day to allay their sufferings and bring cheer into their hearts. While engaged in this work she is captured by the Germans and brought before Eric van Strang, a Prussian officer who had once been her husband’s college friend and who had tried to make love to her in the little Canadian village. Strang’s old desire for her returns and he tries to force her attentions upon her. There is a terrific fight. She escapes to another room and plunges a knife into her bosom just as John, her husband, rushes into the room. She recovers, however, and weeks later, in a hospital, she is decorated by the French government for valorous service with the Red Cross and is persuaded to go home. Later there is a happy reunion in Canada—a reunion which crowns with .complete happiness the work of Nanette.