Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-10-14
BIRTH OF A NATION"
SUCCESS IN LONDON
British Critics Like Griffith
Masterpiece-Notes of
the Film World
By the Photoplay Editor

THE Birth OF a Nation" seems to have
done well in London, where II was only
recently shown. The London Daily Tele-
graph has the following to say about the
production:
Altogether remarkable are the artistic
beauty and the lifelike realism of the
scenes I'm which this moving pictorial
drama is unfolded. The pictures are quite
wonderful in their way-superb in their
lighting and in their suggestion OF depth
and atmosphere. fascinating in the nat
uralness with which they reproduce ex.
tensiVe landscapes, well-nigh gruesome in
the nakedness with which they depict the
elemental human passions at work. Prob
ably the scenes that will appeal most
strongly to the British public at the
present time arc those which reproduce
the grim horrors Of war-the shouts Of
hostile forces In trench fighting and in
the open field, the bursting OF shells, the
red glare of burning countrysdes and so
forth. These pictures, in the lurid inn
preston they convey of the realities Of
war, are the most striking in the en-
tire production. Whether the scenes
dealing with the slavery question will
prove quite so interesting is another mat
ter"
The Daily Graphic says: "'The Birth
OF nation is an emphatic and con-
spicuous credit to cinematography in gem
eral and to Western art and production
In particular The Illusion is
80 complete, the sense OF personal particl-
patton In terrible events so keen that II
Is as If one were seeing the actual thing
and hearing a great artist tell Of It and
its effects both at the same time. .
spectacle worthy of its theme. dignified
and likely to inspire to high purposes"
The Daily News says: at is certainly
the most wonderful cinema show of its
kind that has ever been presented in
London"
The well-known painting, Girl with
Parrot" hanging in the Metropolitan
Museum, New York, served as a model
for one of the dresses Rosemary Theby
wears in THE Man of Shame" the Uni
versal feature starring Wilton Lackaye
The style is that of the early eighties
and Is a house gown of the simplest de-
scription, but the care taken by Miss
Theby to accurately reflect the mode
of the period, and her knowledge of the
whereabouts of the correct model is no
simple thing. 1t indicates plainly enough
why a leading woman cannot be an artist
and an idler at the same time, and de-
monstrates why Miss Theby admits she
has no fads.
John Emerson, for many years general
stage director for Charles Frohman, but
now one of the most efficient of the di-
rectors working under the master pro-
ducer, D. w. Griffith. has Just arrived
in New York from the Reliance Studios
in Los Angeles Mr.. Emerson comes to
produce, under the general direction of
Mr.. Griffith, a comedy in which Douglas
Fairbanks will star and which will be
exhibited bp the Triangle Film Corpora
ton. This comedy is His Picture in
the Paper" 1t is from the pens of Mr..
Emerson and Anita Loos.
H. B. Warner has arrived at Inceville,
where he is to stay for an indefinite pc
riod starring in Triangle pictures Mr..
Warmers first vehicle will offer him a
part as a clergyman. and later on he
will be given such roles as he made IA
nous in alias Jimmy Valentine" The
Ghost Breaker" and other successes.
Alexandra Carlisle, recently seen with
John Drew in Rosemary" has been
signed by Equitable Motion Picture Cor
poration for appearance in a screen pro-
duction of Creeping Tides" under the
direction of Marshall Farnum. In the