The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-27
famous Picture Needs No Introduction to Theatre Patrons of Alabama and City of Birmingham
LAST ENGAGEMENT
 A RECORD BREAKER
 FOR THE BOX OFFICE
First Picture to Be Shown at $2 Prices and to Be Successful-Daily Mati- nees During Week

The Birth of a Nation" will begin IS return engagement at the Jefferson theatre next Sunday
 This simple announcement tells one If the biggest stories of the year to heatrical Birmingham. Shorn of all ietails and alluring claims of the press
 gent and billboard it proclaims the
 econd coming of the one theatrical 9ffering that needs no introduction tq central Alabama and forecasts another week of enormous crowds and long lours of perspiring work for the att aches of the playhouse The advance ieat sale will open Thursday morning tt o'clock and it is a safe wager that the box office will have a line of ticket purchasers until the engagement closes on Saturday night March H. During New Years week, when local playgoers witnessed the Griffith spec tacle for the first time the line never broke from Monday morning until Sat. Urday night It was the biggest week in the history of the Jefferson and revelation to those wiseacres who pre- dicted failure for Manager Douglas in attempting to present a $2 attrac- tion for seven days. And inciden- tally, hundreds who failed to heed the advice of the management, that they obtain tickets in advance, were either turned away or forced to con tent themselves with standing room.
 SEVERAL COMPANIES
 There are several companies pre- senting "rhe Birth of a. Nation'' in different sections of the United States, but the one booked for the return en- gagement at the Jefferson is the same one that played the phenomenal New Years week engagement. The same splendid orchestra and the same realis tic sound effects will be heard and the same complete film will be shown. The scale of prices will remain the same and to the smallest detail this engagement will be an exact duplicate of the other. From Birmingham the company goes to New Orleans to begin an indefinite engagement at the Tu- lane theatre, which. will preclude any possibility of it's return here this sea- son. Next weeks engagement will be in the nature of a farewell, in that 1t will give Birmingham people their last opportunity to see this particular company.
 MANY MORE TO COME
 Inasmuch as a great percentage of the citys playgoing population saw "The Birth of a Nation" in January, description of the- offering seems SUI perfluous. Suffice to say that it is 8 mighty spectacle in which music is welded to film in the telling of story of intense historical and love in- terest. It is the story of a nation re- born through civil strife, being based upon the world popular stories of Thomas Dixon. "The. Clansman," and 'The Leopard Spots' Among the his torical incidents shown are, Lincoln signing his call for volunteers at the outbreak of the war between the states. the battle of Petersburg. Sher- mans march to the sea, Lee and Grant at AppomattoX, the, assassination of Lincoln in Ford's theatrc Washington, and the rise of the Kul<lux-Klan.
 Wherever The Birth of a Nation is shown hundreds of people witness it two or three times It is the one theatrical offering that unfolds some thing new and wonderful every time one sees it and only those who have