Arizona republican., 1916-12-10
BIRTH OF 4 NAT|ON''
 COMING TOCOLUMB|A

D. w. Griniti's mighty spectacle return engagement at popular pri es al the columbia beginning Su..dA, December li for days. | here vii. be two perlormdnceS daily at 2aJ and 1:30 clock.
 Nothing Ike this wonderful at traction has ever i.een seen upon the local oaIas. It is given here exac .ly as lt is being presented in NcN YOrn City where the big drama has broken everY reco.d in the stage history O. the first city in tie country In au- dition the piece has piled up record engagements in Chicago. Boston. San Francisco and Los Angeles.
 It covers a wide range of American history and touches only the highest points of interest in the great events that led up 10 and terminated the civil war The force that slavery played in producing this crisis is traced from it's inception to its aboli- ton Willie the Sasic theme is his torical in its foundation it's intent is the fundameutal one Of true drama The forces which make for {, csc re- suits have feen marshalled upon larger scale than was ever dreamed of before. Where directors of vast spectacle have dealt with hundreds Tn the past Griffith employs thoueands. EigEtecn thousand people ftll is [ sta"e which has a vast territory for i it's ba. kground. Three thousand hors- es rass before your view in wild 1 dashes over miles of county roadway i Ire deeisive battles of the civil war 1 are reproGuced i1 'nithfrl detail rA von see 'hcse conflicts fought again inst as they we've waged 50 years ago. I Cities were tuilt no only to Q fo- ! etroved to lend force and Neritv to ] the dramatic na-rative. One eno~- mors b. t'lefield Is shown stretching over an area of 10 square miles an1 upon these rlanes and trenches lno01 i soldiers clash in a mimic awrfare tha; i is as real as if you were eye Wit1cs0- es of the qetual occuren~e. Hold ng 1 the great effects in tether is 8 story 1 as tender and true as love and TO- mTnce c~n ho rio'ired. There are tears and smiles. noble sacrifices and ] heroic deeds of personal yalor Youthful dreams of loves fruition are rent assundcr by tho demons of war. home ties snan before the Call t2 arms and suffering such as cannot re imagined Is dcp'ctcd in tf" crude manner that history is made when men surrender reason to passion and engage in deadlock of armed re- sistance.
 You sec the war start after being showr tho causes which preciplta'ed it. You see the great generals or the ! contendinr sections playing ;heir deS- perats games of human pawns moved
 into the fields of slaughter. Then comes the agreement for peace and Lincoln sets about his superhuman task of healing the wounds bs the application Of that great love whiCn
 made lI.m the towering figure of his age. A faratlc's bullet stills ,he hcar.
 which beat tc evenly for all iumani4y.
 The south IS thrown tac.. into d
 worse tate than war. Their lands are ovcrrIn b. nungry hnr1e of fvengeful politicians and sraftcrs. T e
 poor negro ls cajo.ed into q false un-
 derstanding of liberty and in his ig-
 norance is led Into cNcesses by these
 scal1Nacs of fortune Out Of it com z the gnos ly crusaders of terrible err
 to once mere set things aright ana
 return tac and sand Dei ties 'il Nc. te
 to their rickttul owners and over th
 lands miseaese soun-a the ctor-s oi
 trotherly loAc tn an allegoii al d-e.. .n
 which ,islons the reunion ui the
 div .ded sec ,ions anc the welding "l
 that national spirit which .iss made
 this ns tion so great after it's baptism in its own hood.
 A wonderful score of operatl,
 reaches accompanies the narrative. Il is all done upon a most s;npendou'
 scale. No detail has been ov.rioose
 The drama is out iaed and told Tn th,
 most graphic iolm q at has vel hctr
 devised ly tho brain of man for l.i
 purpose. Nc wonder this work !.
 epoch making Ij las set ur now
 standards which it will be difncni
 to equal for meuy years tn come.