A 5 tr met ee sae Ce Fa a= “x a WE SE PER A i Pe RE ————————— ot a Ai A A a a a A at TOZERS Jewelry Store NOW Cost $500.000 Manager Dinsmore Takes Great" Pleasure In Introducin 1 This E.xtraordina 9 Attraction . And Hopes You All Be Sure / See It 5,000 Scenes Selected Musicians Symphony Orchestra of 2 EXACTLY AS SHOWN DURING RECORD BREAKING RUNS IN ALL THE LARGE CITIES OF THE WORLD Decisive Battles of the Civil War—-Sherman’s March to the Sea —- Grant and Lee at A ttox - | he South Before the War — The Death of Abraham Lo Toe of the Ku Klux Klan -History in the Making-—Mighty Stor re oy tears view Be Naor TER —————.S— a ——— The Greatest Story Ever Revealed on Any Stage acts About | Bird's Eye Viev of Gigantic Spectacle to Be Played Here IRA wt a | Re fe, pn Premier performance March 3, 1915, at the Liberty Theatre, New York. Some of the subsequent productions were: Tremont Theatre, Boston, Mass, heginning Apirl 10; Hinois Theatre, Chicago, IIL. starting June 5: Brigh- | ton Beach Masie Hall, N. Y., July 3: Nixon Theatre, . Atlantic City, N . di July 18. All these were long runs of many months, the five separate companies aggregat- | Fo) a total attendance of H0,0X0 patrons weekly. Never fore has a play run hall a vear simultaneously in so I ‘many cities, including also seventeen weeks in Los An. u : Gh os o da ———— lL. VM BO Rk R I Ea geles and eighteen weeks in San Fraveiseo. Produced by David W. Griffith, the foremost of direct. ors and pioneer of the new art. Suggested by Thomas Dixog’s novel, “The Clansman.”’ The play contains 5,000 scenes; presents 15,000 actors and 3,000 horses; cost $500,000) for actual production ex- pense, and took eight months to produce, Story divided Ht two acts. Total time of performance, 2 hours and 40 minutes, Some of the greatest battles of the Civil War re.en- acted. A reproduction of Atlanta as it was in 1864, built RI “THE BIRTH OF A NATION™ ap to be destroved by fire, in the pleture of Sherman's march to the sea. Lew and Grant shown at Ap poraattox; Ford's Theatre, Washington, reproduced to the smallest details for the Lincoln tragedv. Reconstruction pretor- . inlized in the sctual South Carolina scenes. climaxing with a series of wild Kn Kiax Klan rides that connman deered the county for nn dav and cost $100, Women's dresses used 12000 vards and Khun Klux Klin costumes 25.000 vards of eloth. Night photography of battle scenes invented and per- fected at i cost of $3,HK Wonderful artillery duels in which real shells-—cost- ing $80 a picee were used. Miles of tre nehes—thousands of C onfederate and Fideral fighters—** war as it actaally » is! First tine in the nstory of theatricals for a motion picture to be handled and presented as a regular attrac tion. It requires two sixty foot ears to transport the equipment. A regular t avelling organization of 3 peo ple, with its own stag director, erew, HIIsICTaLLS, opera ars and mechanical ¢xperts to remdiast the theatres to setentifie focal reqguirtments, Not dononding solely on the local musicians plete symphonic orchestra is carried, The musical 1% synchronized to the several thousand < sie dividual scenes. The spectacle has met strong opopsition at times but hag been approved by every Board of with ene exception in the United States and b and scores of the most eminent United States § andl Representatives, Governors of States, Jud Lietsts, diplomats, educators and clergymen. It haw viewed and commended by a larger number of p ministers than had ever prev ously approved a | entertaitunent. Receipts and attemiinnee have likewise made page of theatrical history. Within the first the gross attendance was approximately 1 © eeipts have dwarfed those of ** Ben Hur" and every great spectacle hitherto presented. Artistically, “The Birth of a Nation’ combi quisite dornestie comedy ated romanee with the ane 1} all of Hi story 's greatest moments, men les! lesson of patriotista that springs from ‘the “, born as the résull of War between the States constragelion,
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