The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-04-12

At the Theatres

D. W. Griffiths lobe-girdling tri-
umph, The Birth of a Nation" will
be shown at the Classic tonight This
will positively be the last OppOrtuni-
ties in this city to see this master
piece which has everywhere thrilled
capacity audiences with it's charming
love story and historic spectacles.
From the first scene to the last the
film maintains the keenest interest
but it reaches its strongest point in
the second part, when the hOrdes Of
the ku KluX Khan are gathering for
the rescue of harried whites.
The extraordinary spectacular eff
effects, the breadth of conception and
the skill of execution with which the
spectacle has been made, differenti-
ates it from all previous attempts at
phOtOdrama. The scenes range through
the Civil war and reconstruction peri
DDS, and visualizes with graphic effect
the places and personages Of the most
stirring period of American history
One of the heroic stunts performed
by Douglas Fairbanks in "A Modern
Musketeer," which will be shown at
the Majestic theatre Sunday and Mon
day, is climbing up the side of a steep
canyon on rope with Marjorie Daw
hanging to his neck.
The photoplay was staged in the
Grand Canyon of Arizona, and pre-
SentS Fairbanks as a modern D'Artag-
nan, whose adventures rival those of
the famous Dumas hero. Besides he
role deeds and thrilling scenes, the
film abounds in typical Fairbanks
humOr
Eugene Ormonde suffers all kinds
Of abuse, and is finally dragged at
the heels of Tully Marshall's gallop-
ing horse, which act is supposed to
square a debt of the past when Or
monde played Marshall false and
caused him to become a fugitive from
justice.
Gladys Brockweu in The Moral
Law" will be shown at the Classic
Sunday Gladys BrockwelI had the
greatest successes of her career in the
year just closed. She has placed on
the screen subjects of the heart that
are to met with in every day life.
The women she has portrayed prin-
cipally are those alluring kind, the
vampires. Such roles have power not
only to entertain motion picture goers
but to warn them Of the misery, the
hardships, of trifling with human
hearts.
The attraction at the Majestic Sat
urday will be Ethel Barrymore in
"The American Widow" The play has
a theme of universal interest to all
Americans who as class are not con-
tent to witness peoples of other lands
in the quick virile p1cturizations of
American emotions. The American
strictly speaking is no more like any
other nationality than lima and Bos-
ton beans could be called the same
A comedy of better class will be
shown at the Majestic tonight, Watch
Your Neighbour with Mary Thurman
in the stellar role The undertaken and
doctor play super roles The fun is
fast and furious with many innova-
lions in the way of optical illusions.
Al the episodes are handled with a
fine sense of burlesque
Pauline Stark will be the attraction
at the Classic Saturday in 'UntiTT They
Get Me" 1t is a story of the west and
one that will please all who see it.
She is convincing as is perhaps no
other actress starring in western
dramas.
The Fair Barbarian" starring vi
Wan Martin, at the Majestic tonight is
one of the best comedies shown here
in a long time. The picture does not
depend for its interest on a lone
theme.
Have your lawn mower sharp