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the Lubin studio. The battle is the big 

 scene in "The Coming of the Kingdom," 

 the fifteenth part of the "Road O' Strife" 

 serial, in which the Lubin Company is 

 featuring Crane Wilbur, Mary Charle- 

 son and Jack Standing. 



When a call was sent out by the Lubin 

 Company for Italian volunteers, Little 

 Italy in Philadelphia responded so nobly 

 that it was necessary to get a number of 

 policemen to keep them in line at the 

 studio while the best types were selected. 

 Over three hundred of the volunteers 

 got uniforms and joined either the army 



interest in Hervo-Alesia and spoiled the 

 plans of the ambassadors, princes and 

 others by marrying Crane Wilbur, a stu- 

 dent and dreamer of whom she had been 

 very fond since their meeting in the first 

 chapter of "Road O' Strife." 



MAKING UNITED STATES MA- 

 RINES ACT FOR THE MOVIES 



The United States marines are called 

 on to do many queer things and perform 



The Members of the Fourth United States Marine Corps Taking Part in the Production of an Exciting 



Military Photoplay. 



of Urania under King George Soule 

 Spencer or that of Hervo-Alesia, the 

 kingdom of Queen Mary Charleson. Di- 

 rector John Ince took Charge of the two 

 armies and directed manoeuvres and bat- 

 tles. 



The two kingdoms had a strenuous 

 day of it and the armies charged, fought, 

 slaughtered, retreated, and did almost 

 everything in the fighting line excepting 

 dig trenches and duck real bullets. The 

 war would undoubtedly have continued 

 indefinitely, but Queen Mary Charleson 

 decided emphatically that she had lost all 



many strange acts, but one of the most 

 novel stunts they have had to do was that 

 which recently took place at San Diego. 

 The Fourth U. S. Marine Corps is lo- 

 cated adjoining the Exposition grounds, 

 and one of the directors of the Lubin 

 company had a bright idea as a result. 

 A drama was filmed on the grounds in 

 which the most realistic of battles was 

 fought between the soldiers and Filippino 

 warriors, the latter being merely more 

 soldiers from the Government post in 

 San Diego, properly dressed, or rather 

 undressed, and painted in most hideous 



