"THE BIRTH OF A NATION."

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 3096, 17 November 1916, Page 2

"THE BIRTH OF A NATION."

THE APOTHEOSIS OF MOVING

PICTURES

Tremendous interest is being taken in the forthcoming presentation of that world-famed motion picture "Tlie Birth of a Nation," which will be presented by the J". C. Williamson management at the Lyceum to-night and twice to-morrow. . All the professional critics saw the opening performance, and their reviews were extremely enthusiastic. The picture was proclaimed the sensation of the season. The Rev. Thomas B. Gregory wrote in the New York American: "In the great photo spectacle "The Birth of a Nation' at the Liberty Theatre, Mr D. W. Griffith comes pretty nigh working a miracle with a completeness and perfection that is astounding. As a picture play, 'The Birth of a Nation' is, by. all odds, the greatest thing that has ever come to New York, and in this masterpiece (of mlotiott- picture reproduction) _we may see something of the possibilities of the art as an educator to th© human race, through the most royal of the senses, the eye. Mr Griffith and his forces were eight months making the picture. They travelled over the sections in which the story is located, and reproduced the scenes with rigid fidelity. I am prepared to say that not one of the more than; 5000 pictures that go to make up the drama is in any essential way an exaggeration. They are ono and all faithful to historic fact, so that, looking upon them, you feel that you are beholding that which actually happened." The box plans foi* the entire season are at Copeland's.