A noticeable event of the film history of the' week is. the extra ordinary interest taken by Chinese Almgoers in the cinema at the Grand and the Cathay Theatres giving vivid drama of war-time heroism a seen in the trench ordeal of a French regiment famous for its fighting—and dying—qualities. The suggestion has been made that this bears out. the contention that war mentality is in the air, The quality of the film affords a direct rebuttal in the minds of those who have seen it, Having. obtained "from the archives of Washington—Just as British producers of the "Guns of Loos" enlisted the War Office's support in supplying equal films of that battle—some films taken in the trenches of the war veers, the producers have been able to depict the real horrors of wat In 40 grim a light that they are not unjustified in maintaining that the film is in essence a strong argument against war rather than a stimulus to warmongering, even though it does portray a heroism to which only a few could hope to aspire.
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