PATRIOTIC SPLENDOR The Patriotic Picture need not necessarily be in terms of splendor.

It generally is.

Beginning the chronicle is one that waves no banners.
The Typhoon, a film produced by Thomas H.Ince, is a story of the Japanese love of Nippon in which a very little of the landscape of the nation is shown, and that in the beginning.

The hero (acted by Sessue Hayakawa), living in the heart of Paris, represents the far-off Empire.
He is making a secret military report.

He is a responsible member of a colony of Japanese gentlemen.