HIS MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
Another of the great war spectacles which the picture screen has unfolded is the eightpart Goldwyn drama entitled "For the Freedom of the World," which was shown for the first time in Dunedin at His Majesty's Theatre on, Saturday afternoon, and later in the evening, there being good attendances on both occasions. The film presents the horrors of war from the standpoint of the average family involved, and transposes the quiet order of domestic life into the very heart of the battlefield. Some particularly fine battle soenes are shown, and the thrilling.. nature of actual trench warfare is brought home to one in a manner which only the kinematograph is capable of doing. The story, a high-powered tale of love and deception, cowardice and heroism, was written by Captain Edwin Bower Hesser, an officer of the American Legion of the Canadian Expeditionary Forces, and the scenes are laid in Canada, tho United "States of America, and on the battlefields' of Western France. It is a romantic love story, and is beautifully limned by the twin stars of the production — E. JC Lincoln and Barbara Castleton.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3403, 4 June 1919, Page 52
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188HIS MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Otago Witness, Issue 3403, 4 June 1919, Page 52
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