AMERICA'S PART IN THE WAR.

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2913, 27 October 1916, Page 7

AMERICA'S PART IN THE WAR.

»_ MR. HALE HAMILTON IN DEFENCE Mr. Hale Hamilton, tho American actor who. is entertaining oveyono nightly at the Opora House, • is a big figure 011 the American stage, and was tho creator of Waflingford', the bluff who oreated a fortune out of car-jiot-topped carpet tacks in a famous farcical comedy. R.is Mr. Hamilton's desire to upset any_ possible impression that Amoncan sentimont as a wholo" is not pro-A11y... "Please, don't get it into yohr heads evon hero that Americans—l moan real Americans—aro proGerman, just hecauso they havo , not plunged into the vortex. Tiioro aro plonty o'f straight-out Germans, and many more of the hj-plicnated class, whoso sentiments axe cither straightout Germaai or loan towards tho German ond of the thing, but tho American, and there aro many millions of him, aro for tho Allies- straight out, bcoause it means tjiat they liavo no timo for tho Power that, has outraged humanity in-a hundred ways; for tho Power that sank tho Lusitajiia, and sacked tiny Belgium when it was off its guard." . Mr. Hamilton was in Now York whon tho British emissaries visited the States: in connection with tbe"Erst_big loan, and ho will never forgot the ringing reception they were given by everybody who mattered. It was true that America had kept out of tho fighting part of the war, hut it was. wrong to say that she had kept out of tho war. "Think of the hundreds of vessels that crossed tho Atlantio full to tiio.hatcliea with munitions for tho Allies during tho first year or eighteen months of tho war! Look at tho small arms America supplied them with when .tho Allies could not supply thomselvos! When the history of tho war comes to bo written up it will bo found that American supplies and American influence played a bigger part in tho war than most people in tho Antipodes are I aware.

At the conclusion of tho Nvjr Zealand tour Mr. Hamilton and his charming wifo (Miss Myrtle Tannehill) leave for America, where they aro booked to open in a new comedy about Christmas time.