Fragments From France Part 5

"Yes, change at Oxford Circus."]

[Ill.u.s.tration: "Of course, personally I dont think there is anyone there"

"Nor do I"

Thinking it over subsequently in Boulogne,--an impression of overcrowding predominates in recollections of "straighthing" that bit of the line.

"We Look Before----And After."]

[Ill.u.s.tration: Con Moto Perpetuo.

"OUR BERT" (going on leave--having asked a question, and having listened to three minutes' unintelligible eloquence): "And 'ow does the chorus go?"]

[Ill.u.s.tration: Real Sympathy.

"I wish you'd get something for that ---- cough of yours. That's the second time you've blown the blinkin' candle out!"]

[Ill.u.s.tration: Entanglements.

"Come on, Bert, it's safer in the trenches."]

[Ill.u.s.tration: "How long have you got Fred?"

"LEAVE."]

[Ill.u.s.tration: There are times when Private Lightfoot feels absolutely convinced that it's going to be a War of Exhaustion.]

[Ill.u.s.tration: Chat on 'Change.

"You owes me two francs and I owes you one that's got into the lining of me coat; that makes it right, don't it?"]

[Ill.u.s.tration: General Sir Frampton Prendergasp R.S.V.P. P.T.O. SOS a rising and successful general, who is plotting an offensive

The General ... Cyrus Moffat

Nancy Prendergasp, his daughter, who has gone in for nursing, unknown to her father. She is in love with ----

Featuring Miss Sybil Fane

d.i.c.k MANVERS a lance Corporal in the pay department, who, after extensive & painful researches, has invented a new bomb

"d.i.c.k"

Steven Fairbrother

d.i.c.k shows his new bomb to the General who decides to use it in the offensive

But is overheard and seen by Captain ADRIAN BLACK an unscrupulous adventurer in the pay of a powerful Government

That night he is seen by Nancy subst.i.tuting PLUM & APPLE for The new explosive

END OF PART I

PART II

WILL FOLLOW IMMEDIATELY

Flanders Film Mfg Co--Milwaukee, Wisconsin. U.S.A.]

[Ill.u.s.tration: The Offensive begins. The new bomb is found to be equally explosive in spite of Captain Black's dark deed

Nancy, who fears disaster, steals her Father's private Howitzer and races to the Offensive

Black throws every obstacle in her way

"Dont you know me d.i.c.k?"

The General, who has been doing a bit on his own, becomes the unwilling witness of a touching scene

The General having heard their story, orders the arrest of Captain Black

How d.i.c.k Manvers Got His Star.

Every familiar feature of the Film is happily caricatured by Captain Bairnsfather in his amusing page of pictures. The hero, the heroine (with smile), the villain, the heavy father, all of the most approved pattern--everything down to the meticulous inaccuracy characteristic of the American film in matters of detail, is shown with the good-natured sarcasm befitting a master of satire as well as of humour, while the story tells itself with breathless enthusiasm.]

[Ill.u.s.tration: The Whip Hand.

Private Mulligatawny (the Australian Stock-whip wonder) frequently causes a lot of bother in the enemy's trenches.]

[Ill.u.s.tration: Christmas Day: How it dawned for many.]

[Ill.u.s.tration: "Under the spreading chestnut tree the village smithy stands."]

[Ill.u.s.tration: Veni 1914

Vidi 1915