The evening news., July 22, 1916, Page 3, Image 3

THE EVENING NEWS SATl'KDAY, JULY 22, IfMU.
...THltEB
3. DAYS ONLY
Starting
Thurs. Matinee
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SEAT
SALE!
I . m ' W.. Griffiths
Prices: ; I Jl HR -f -
$1.00 i ntzd A
$1.00 -Wi
50c
$1 50 J
Monday, July 31st
At Theatre Box Office
MAIL ORDERS NOW---When accom
panied by check filled in order of receipt.
Positively no telephone orders taken.
GET 'EM EARLY, DON'T DELAY.
Elliott & Sherman Present
1 Matinee 2:15
Lower Floor,
Balance
Balcony,
First 2 Rows
Balcony,
Next 2 Rows
Balcony,
Balance
Gallery,
Unreserved
All Box ,
Seats
Spectacle
Lower Floor,
First 12 Rows
Evening 8:15
rices:
Lower Floor, (D I ' fl H
Firstl2RowsM)I.UU
Lower Floor, I CO
Balance .-. .flI.JU
Balcony, (h CO
First 2 Rows Wl-uU
Balcony, $ I fill
Next 2 Rows $ I . UU
Balcony,
Balance . .
Gallery,
Unreserved
All Box
Seats
. . . 75c
...50c
$2.00
WITH
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SYMPHONY
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Griffith's "Birth of a Nation"
Place yourself off the earth at a point somewhere off the
southeastern portion of the United Sfates. Imagine an invisible
hand uuroilmg the record of the supreme events in the nation!
hiatoiy wherein the vital points bearing upon American slavery
rise and disappear to give place to others In a continuous panorama,
so swiftly acted as to tread upon one another ,, heels. Thread thin
mosaic of tragic heartbeats. Let these individuals symbolize. Youth,
Age, Ambition, Fanaticism. Sectional Pride. Hace Prejudice and
love with the martyred Lincoln as the crowning figure of the
whole This is iriff ith s superb motion picture epic, "The Birth
of a Nation"" From your vantage point you see the arrival of the
first African slave. The North and South develop rapidly. The
breach of l comes and young men of the North hasten to answer
the call of the president for volunteers to preserve the Union, and
the young men of the South form rapidly under the banner of the
new confederacy. Far-flung battle Hues advance bravely over hill
and plain You hear the roar of battle and see the ground strewn
with dead and dving heroes. Forlorn hopes climb to capture en
filading batteries Fathers and pons and brothers join in the
death grapple. Darknes comes and the night is streaked with tta
Ity II ltl.l S Ft ;i:K. HANKS, lH'imatie Kdilorirf the PoM-lnlelllKem fr
weird light of bursting shells. You see the sorrowing homes every
where. Age and Infancy go to their troubled rent. Prayers for
the protection of loved one rise from family altars. Couriers bring
news of the diud and dying to fainting hearts.
The battle lirys have swept on. Two young men, college chums,
both wounded to the death, fall in each other's arms, the uniforms
they wear along the divid.ug line of brotherhood. They clasp each
other about the neck and die,
Lee surrenders to Crant. Lincoln, his giant figure bowed with
the woes of his beloved Fnion, signs the famous proclamation and
pre. pa res lo welcome Iwk the Ft a rviitg children of thrf nation.
False sentiment and political ennninu; thwart his plans.
It is a beautiful nipht In April. In Ford's Theatre the people
of Washington have gathered to witness n comedy. Lincoln is
there wiih his wife. He ? miles and nods from his ho to the people
below. You see the assasMn steal br-h'n,! htm and level the pistol.
A shot rings out and the whole world is plunged into horror and
gloom.
Things change rapidly. The radical la in the saddle and am
bitious attempts are being made to place the newly enfranchised
negro on an eijoaifty, politically and socially with the .white man.
In the profit rate Ho nth the nero tremendously outnumbers 1 he
white man. degradation and animalism sweep over the country.
Homes ruined by the Civil War, and on Ihe eve of being ro-estab-llshed,
are sacked and burned. Hordes of frantic freed men, drunk
with their new release from bondage, revel In lust and rapine. Tho
sun or the Southland Is in eclipse.
Tho scattered white men organize the Ku-Klux-Klan. Clad in
white sheets with cross-marked masks, mounted, they swept from
plantation to plantation, resolved to bring about, the supremacy of
breeding and culture. The better slaves, even, forgetting the kind
nesH of their old masters, nnrl their passions fed on recitals of tho
cruelty of some former overseer, Join tho majority In an effort to
trample all white people into the mire. You see things that ought
never to have been and wonder why they should bo among reason
able creatures.
All thin you see Jn th most wonderful panorama of history
symbolized, not by cold pages of typo, hut written with human be
ings for words and mouth for sentences. If Thomas C'nrlyle'ft
'"French Revolution" 1 a historical poem so in Griffith's "Mirth
of a Nation " The same effect K produced fn either case years of
.social cataclysm thundered to your senses In tremendously moving
periods, all minor events forgotten In the supremo vision of a master
mind.
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