Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-11-13
DAVIS THEATRE NEXT WEEK
aThe Birth Of a Nation"

Beginning Monday, and running one
week only. there will be thrown on
most remarkable photoplay in the
world, The Birth of a Nation. This
play has been shown in a majority of
the largest cities from coast to coast,
and at prices that are ordinarily
charged for seats to a high class
dramatic production or stellar musical
comedy, has drawn packed houses con-
stantIy.
A person who has never seen this
film story of our own country can't be-
gin to realize what a wonderful thing
It Is. The action, starts in the south
just before war times, and carries us
through the stirring scenes of the
Civil war, including such world famous
incidents of history as the surrender
of Lee, and the assassination of Linz
colin. 1t hardly seems possible that
real battles of the Rebellion and real
characters Of history can be so faith
fully depicted, as in this remarkable
picture. but the faithfulness to detail
is such that may old soldiers, of the
north, and many southerners have been
astounded to see the reproduction of
scenes which they themselves have
actually witnessed.
There is a special orchestra which
will be augmented by the regular Da-
Wis orchestra, for music forms no small
part of the inspiration of this big pic
ture, and also helps to make the i'm
preston created of realism much
stronger.
BY examining the price scale of seats
in this issue it will be found that or
chestra as well as balcony seats are
to be obtained at a very reasonable
figure, considering the magnitude of
the attraction.
fury after the actual scenes of the
Civil war, this highest development
of the motion picture art bears a keen
relationship to current events. Aside
from it's dramatic appeal and poetic
flight it brings back to younger gen.
Grafton with a newborn realism the
things which our fathers and grand
fathers went through that out of the
travail could come the nation we are
SO proud of today. 1t is not a case
of opening old wounds, but is art sug-
gestive of the highest form of art. to
understandings of the past that we
may face the crisis of the present with
a. calmness and determination to up
hold the right.
The dramatic form has often been
employed by the greatest minds of the
world to express underlined truths and
as regards the usages and the suffer-
ings of war, no pen has been able to
make as impressive a picture as Crit
fifth has encompassed in this master
piece. A born realist he cuts into the
quick of facts that he may establish
his dramatic plot. He has not been
concerned with factions of propaganda
but with the unerring view of the
master of the new art he has made his
impress upon our times in a way which
is startlingly original and a force tc
be reckoned with in the future. He
masses great armies upon a historic
plane to reproduce the records of a
mighty struggle and by the human in
terests of two families makes a great
nations efforts a topic of a dramatic
construction which appeals to the
heart and the sympathies as no bald
narrative of facts could hope to do
To attain these results he employs the
passions, the loves and the conflict
of essential drama He writes history
by flashes of lightning and with it all
has built up a spectacle that thrills
the human soul, brings tears to the
eyes, mingles pathos with laughter
and above all else, does something fine
upon the most tremendous scale that
was ever undertaken by a dramatist
in the worlds history.
It is well worth while and when one
has seen it, it is easy to understand
why it has created such a stir.
Seats are now on sale for the entire