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Show SORGT'OT'S FILM OFFERING COMING TO I)E LT A Through the effcrts of the local-Chamber local-Chamber cf Commerce, D. V. Crif-ith'-: tremendous film offering "AMERICA" has been booked for Telta and will be shown at the local ihcatre on February ISth and 19th AMERCA is the romance of onp hundred and ten million people and -3 the story which many critics declare de-clare is greater than Mr. Griffith' aiiier picture, "The Birth of a Nation." In May, 1923, the Daughters of the Amer.can Revolution addressed a etter to the motion picture industry, inquiring why a film of the American Ameri-can Revolutionary War had not been undertaken ,and suggesting that it should not be delayed. The letter was turned over to Mr. Griffith and after making a secret trip to Boston and making a car-iful "tudy of all the shrines of patriotism 'n that vicinity and at the Old North Church and along the ride taken by Paul Revere and then basking in the sun for more than an hour directly where "the shot heard round th; vorld" was fired, he decided to make the film. In filming the picture Mr Griffith was permitted, under special guard, to wire the belfry of the Old North Church, and was permitted -to use the crack Third U. S. Cavalry at Ft. Meyer, Va. in scenes as Morgan'E Raiders. "AMERICA" is an acurate as well as drarcatij record of the events portrayed, por-trayed, for every historical scena is played as it actually occured. "LEST WE FORGET" is the keynote key-note of the picture. "BE IT REMEMBERED" RE-MEMBERED" its summing up. |