"THE BIRTH OF A NATION"

Evening Post, Volume XCII, Issue 50, 28 August 1916, Page 3

"THE BIRTH OF A NATION"

In the main Town Hall to-morrow evening, at 8 .o'clock sharp, J. C. Williamson, Ltd., will present, the inuch-taikt-d-of art film, " The Birth of a Nation." Thr.1 season is limited to nine nights, and a matinue will be given next Saturday, when children will be admitted at-half pries. In "The Birth of a Nation ' will be ccci! why Abraham Lincoln is regarded as the one great outstanding figure in American history. His country found in him the man best suited to deal with a great crisis. His assassination was the greatest blow to a. newly-united people. How the South su-fered as the result of a madman's act is pathetically pictured in D W. Griffith's great film. It is brought home in the story of the Camerons, the fortunes of whose house are followed in ' The Birth of a Nation." Reduced from comfort to poverty, they still kept 'a brave face, Ths home-coming of their only surviving son. "The Littie Colonel," is said to be the most touching incident ever screened. All might have gone well had Lincoln been spared. The access to •power of the negroes on the President's death was fraught with sinister results. The whites were terrorised, outnumbered, and disarmed, murder was rife, and an orgy,of violence held sway. Griffith, in his masterpiece, has depicted vividly this reign of terror, and through it weaves a love story as entrancing as that uf Borneo and Juliet. The incidental music is played by an operatic orchestra conducted by Mr. Horace Keats, of London. The box plans are now open at the Bristol, where scats may be booked without extra charge.