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Show "BIRTH OF A NATION" COMING TO LOGAN In tho twelve reels of pictures that tell the story of "The Birth Of A Nation," which is to be exhibited nt the Lyric Theater, every phase of the human emotions that is possible to portray has been shown. Every graduation of happiness of sorrow, of pain nnd joy nro shown. Llfo and death, human relations, hatred and friendship are there too and in the depiction of friendship, .one of the prettiest scenes of tho whole twelve reels is displayed. It Is short. Very short. Only a minute or so does It flash on the screen. But you do not forget It. It fs a cameo wlilcll remains In tho vision for weeks afterward. Duke Cameron and Tod Stoneman are chums. They aro boys together. And when the call for volunteer for the Civil Wnr conies they march away with their companies, one fighting fight-ing for the South, one fighting for tho North. A battle. On the screen there flashed the red of flame, tho white smoke of tho cannons; from tiehind there conies the roaring of tho battle bat-tle effects that are carried with tho picture. Wounded, stumbling, there conies Into the vision, the form of Duke Cameron. A flash, and above him there appears the form of his chum, Ton Stoneman, his eyes blaz-lnz blaz-lnz with the blood lust of battle, his bayonotted rifle upraised f or Uie thrust that will send Its cold steel through the body of the man beneath be-neath him. And then The man on the ground moves. Tod sees that It Is his chum. He drops his rifle, he bends forward to aid his wounded friend. Then ho straight ens and writhes. A bullet has reached reach-ed hint too. He stumbles his hands reach outward. They embrace the still form of Duko Cameron they stretch wide, then suddenly fall limp. The chums are dead and as thoy had lived, so they died together. togeth-er. It is only nn Incident of a great stream picture which flashes before one for two hours. But It Is a tribute trib-ute to the detail loving nature of tho man who has mado America's greatest great-est motion picture, David Mark Griffith. |