Arizona republican., 1916-04-30


 fiths masterpiece opens this afternoon at the Elks. Needless to say one of the greatest treats ever offered Phoe- nix in the line Of amusements is now bidding for the patronage of lovers of fine art in motion pictures. The pie ture with it's forty piece orchestra. it's full compliment of features will run for two straight weeks. afternoon and night
 Nothing like this wonderful attrac- ton has ever been seen upon the local boards. It is given here exactly as if is being presented in New York City. where the big drama has broken every record ir the stage historyeof the first city in the country. In addition 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 to and terminated the Civil war The force that slavery played in producing this crisis is traced from it's inception to it's abolition. While the basic theme is historical in it's foun- dation. it's intent is the fundamental one Of true drama. The forces which make for these results have been mar i ehalled upon a larger scale than was 1 ever dreamed of before. Where di- ! rectors of vast spectacle have dealt | with hundreds in the past Griffith em- ploys thousands 1S.O00 people fill his stage which has a vast territory for it's | background 5000 horses pass before {! your view in wild dashes over miles of county roadway. The decisive battles | of tie Ci''!l War are reproduced in faithful detail and you see these con- | flicts fought again just as they were | waSed % years ago. Cities were built | Ip only to be destroyed to lend force and verity to the dramatic narrative. | One enormous battlefield is shown stretching over an area of 10 square trenches 10000 soldiers clash in a mimic warfare that is as real as if you were eye witnesses of the actual occurrence. Holding the great effects in tether is a story as tender and true as love and romance can he pictured There are tears and smiles. noble sacrifices and hero;c deeGG of personal valor Youth ful dreams of loves fruition are rent assunder by the demons of war; home ties snap before the call to arms and l suffering such as cannot be imagined 1 is depicted in the crude manner that history is made when men surrender reason to passion and engage in a dead : lock of armed resistance.
 You see the war start after benS shown the causes which precipitated it. Nou see the great generals of the contending sections playing their des- perate games of human pawns moved the agreement for peace andoqa .-s into the fields of slaughter. TheI comes the agreement for peace and Lincoln sets about his superhuman taak of healing the wounds bv the ap- plication of that great love which made him the towering figure of his age A fanatics bullet stills the heart which beat so evenly for all human ity. The South is thrown back into worse fate than war. Their lands are overrun by hungry horde oi vengcful politicians and grafters. The poor negro is cajoled into false un- derstanding of liberty and in his ig- norance is led into eXcesses by these scalawass of fortune. Out of comes the ghostly crusaders of a ter ribe era to once more set things alright and return the lands and lib critics of peace to their rightful own CTS and over the lands miSerere sounds the chorus of brotherlv lov, in an allegorical dream which vision. the reunion of the divided section: and the welding of that national spir it winch has made this nation s, great after it's baptism in its own | blood.
 A wonderful score of operati
 reaches accompanies the narrative. l
 is all done upon a most stupendou scale No detail has been overlooked
 The drama is outlined and told il