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Show The Birth of a Nation at the Lyric Tonight As a star gazer might pick a particular par-ticular brilliant star from out the Milky Way so a theater goer who witnesses tho Birth of a Nation, will recall from Its myriads of exciting scenes, Joys and woes, and wonders, ono particular sceno of speed which pecurs In a negro rura shop, Into which a young white man tins stroll-cd stroll-cd In search of a negro murderer. Pcrlmrs a dozen murderous looking wretches are In tho hut. By a cunning cun-ning trick the proprietor seeks to be-gullo be-gullo tho youth whllo ho Is dealt n deadly blow by ono of tho inmates, but ho Is prepared and looking for this and Its attempt Is tho signal to cut loose. He disarms the latter and roughly handles tho former. Then tho circus commences. White eyes and dark visages pop up from overy comer and their owners fall upon tho reckless white, but ho handles them nil, knocking them right nnd left, throwing them out of tho window win-dow picking them up bodily and knocking others down with tnem, ana literally cleaning up tho placo, until un-til he is treacherously shot In the back from ambush by the culprit v;hoin he seeks. '4 , '&i No more desperate battle than this ore has ever been waged, In make-believe make-believe or In real life one against n score. ' It is one of the -thousand, episodes in Iho great production that makes t the women scream and men Jump.1 to tholr feet and yell. |