| Show TRIUMPH MPH RETURN ENGAGE MENT OF D W GRIFFITHS ath WONDER OF THE WORLD THE BIRTH OF A NATION special for conference week only starting wednesday auril esth salt lake city for in many any years amot amor lean ican dramatists wrote able plays of particular states cities or localities loc III ranging from alabama to the If Henrietta enrietta and from way down east to fo tho the great divide but no one man seemed tou tourist to grasp rast tho the whole spirit and genius of america until david ward griffith picked a suggestion for his theme out of dixons the leopards spots and tile tho clansman and started to de dc delope it A remarkable thing about mr griffiths plan Is ia that words except for leaders and titles do not enter into it perhaps words havo have cramped rather than aided previous and dramatists at any rate lie ho replaced speech with music and the old fashioned stage action and scenery by action n 0 thousands thousand of players in the great out of doors in brief lie ho staged the great battles struggles gales and critical events of 1861 70 winder ander conditions as nearly as possible si to the original the result of mr griffiths efforts is a new and stupendous art for which no adequate na name me has yet been found tho the birth of a nation combines spectacle romance domestic drama comedy tragedy tia t rag gedy edy music musi cand and mechanical effects into harmonius ensemble that captivates equally the eye and the ear in a representation lasting 2 hours and 45 minutes it epitomizes the life of a nation this is something tho the old art could never do tho the obsolete so called stage unities unit les aro are thrown to the winds and griffith carries the tha story from tile the introduction of african slavery right down through civil war aud reconstruction days to tile tho final real union of south and north in tile tho bonds of love and peace among the distinguished actors in thelast the cast are henry B walthall lillian gish mao maish miriam cooper mary alden josephine crowell ralph lewis joseph henabery Hen abory raoul welsh donald cristi criso howard gayo gaye george walter long elmer clifton and robert herron eighteen thousand people horses and no less than scenes went into tho the making of tho the big spectacle con ference visitors tors como come prepared to witness tile worlds greatest spectacle aclo of a lifetime at the salt lako lake theatre |
