"VIVE LA FRANCE."

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17686, 25 July 1919, Page 6

"VIVE LA FRANCE."

The big feature, of the now programme to b? shown at tlie Empire Theatre is the thrilling Paramount production " Vive La France." It is a story of the great war. purporting- to illustrate in the most vivid possible way the depths of gross brutality to which Hun officers sank in their treatment of women. Dorothy Dalton takes the loading part of Genovieve Buchette, a motion picture actress, who returns to France on tho outbreak of war and takes Up Red Cross work among the soldiers of her country. One of these is Jean Picard, who is associated with Genevieve in several desperate contests of force and strategy against tho cruel and powerful Huns. Sho has her. wounded brother shot while he is under- her care, and later is herself branded with "the cross of shame." This shameful iiiii-rk is ultimately her salvation, for sho disguises herself as a German in an attempt to escape from them, and then falls into the hands of her own people and is taken for a Gorman spy. The cress on her breast gives convincing proof of her nationality, and so saves her life. Tbsre is a happy ending to the story, but it is said that tho censor hn-s in no way interfered with the horrible realism of the early part. A good choice of supporting pictures is offered in the same programme, which includes a Bray educational pictograph descriptive of modern Earmini*, and a new Flagtr comedy entitled "Perfectly Fiendish Flanagan, , " which is a pointed skit on the ways of some well-known western drama actors.