Show Record Run Claim Is Challenged With the recent claim that thata a new record has been made for the longest run of or a motion picture on Broadway It is s interesting to recall that The Birth of a Nation ran at the Liberty theatre for four forty-four weeks This theatre h had a seating tI capacity 75 per percent percent ra J cent greater r rt t than the e Criterion theatre theatre the the- atre for which the he new record la le claimed To draw a a. fair comparison It would be necessary for The Covered Covered Covered Cov Cov- ered Wagon to continuo continue three thirty-three weeks more to equal the actual record record record rec rec- ord of or D D. D W W. Griffiths Griffith's old masterpiece master master- ter- ter piece Wa Way Down East also makes maltes a forbidding challenge to the new re rec ree ord as this picture ran for two forty-two weeks at the fourth Forty-fourth Street theatre with a seating capacity of or more than 1400 or more than twice as large as the Criterion To equal the Way Vay Down East record The Covered Wagon would have to run more than eighty weeks As Aa to prices and of ot mone money The Tha Birth of or a Nation played to the highest theatrical prices of ot that day or 2 a seat and a similar price for today would be 3 3 f a seat which I Is the standard theatrical price Wa Way Down East played at 2 2 for orchestra orches orches- tra seats with of or the best seats at 3 and eighty seats at 5 a whereas i a The Covered Wagon has h held the tO top price at total The total records s show that both The Birth of or a Nation and Way Va Down East played to more than twice as many people and to not less Jess than four times as much money as ase the e ae r claimant I M t 1 I ii i. i 1 N |