Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, May 17, 1916, Page 4

iy Five Days - Starting SUNDAY, MAY 21 - Matineg Daily No Telephone Orders Night Prices 50c-$1.00-%$1.50 NIGHTS 8:15p.m. formance. 18000 PEOPLE MATINEES 2:15 p. m. NEVER Before in the history of the} world has a spectacle been produced on any stage so} awe-spiring, soul-stirring as this mighty creation in.Mov- ing Picture form Taken from Dixon’s” “The Clansman” A series of wild rides that commandered a country for a day and cost $10,000. Night photography of battle scenes, invented and perfected at a cost of $12,000. Wonderful artillery duels in which real shells—-costing $80 aplece, were used. | Miles of trenches, thousands of fighters. “War ‘as it actually is.”" Musical Score of 30 pieces, synchronized to several thousand distinct and individual scenes. . : Good seats can be secured at all prices for any per=. Mall requests accompanied by check will be filled in the order received. The Play All America is Raving About. Seats now'on sale at Netzer’s. 5000 SCENES. $500,000 houses. D. W. Telephone Orders Highly Impoortant- -“The Blrth of a Natmn will never be presented at any ‘but the highest class theatres at prices customanly charged in such play- | MAY 17, 1916 . WRDNESDAY, Matinees o at2l5 Evenings at 8:15 Matinee Prices Symphony Orchestra - 30 - 30 “The burning of Atlanta. “Lee’s surrender at Appom- attox” “What War Cost Mothers, Wives and Sisters.” “The Assassination of Presi- dent Lincoln.” “The Rise of the Ku Llux . Artists Based Entlrely on Hlstorlcal Facts GRIFF ITH HOW FILMS SH THE TRAGE ASSASSINATION OF LINCOIN RI PRODUCED WITH &REAT CARE. ET.) L] “Birih of a Naticn” Scenes Show the Intericr of Ferd Theatre at the Time, A kind of artist hicvement easy possible for the ' “indoor drama,” is illustrated by the "“The Birth of ¢ Ratwen.” | he (1d fa a stage, and scme of such representa- tions have been rather realistic. But in the film scene showing (2 assassination of President Lincoln, ' nz secs mot only the complete stage! of Ford’s Theatre in April, 1865, but also the auditoriam of the theatre, ' the audience and the historical fig- ures in the boxes. £ Laura Keene is playing “Onr‘ . for the film. bui i Ford’s Theatre scene in ncd drama at In the Trenches. American Cousin,” assisted by E. A.| Southern in the role of Lord Dun<‘cal realism has never been achieved dreary. They are startled out of their before. It is part of what is meaat mimic parts by the shot that Wilkes | by the so-called “new art” for which Booth fired. The audience has risen!D. W. Griffith is responsible. to its feet as the shot is heard and‘ Spectators gaze at the scene .with cranes forward in a semi-panic to! fascinated horror. It is too terrible, gaze at the great ctalesman whcg .too awesome for applause, yet not a head has fallen back in the stage box spectator but feels that in this im- If this graphic presentment serves and at the assassin Booth who “S'pressive rendition Mr. Griffith has(no other purpose, its message for | leaping from the box to the stage and urpasscd the greatest previous art universal peace marks it of great| whose spur catches in the box drap- achievements of the film drama. i importance. Morally and education- i ery as he jumps, causing him to {auy it establishes the futility of arm- | break his leg. This sort of histori-' HUN VPEG'AL TFA'&{S ed conflict. A member of the senate h ! 1: g . AL' NFXT WEEK TWO0 ROADS PUT ON SPECIAL SERVICE FOR PATRONS FOR ‘ BIRTH OFA NATION.” ing tickets, etc. It is said that overt 200 persons will be here from Cass Lake alone, and similar numbers from other towns nearby. The Play’s Message of Peace. | i ‘foregoing sentiment: ‘“Anyone con- templating war should see this pic- ture,” added the statesman. “I sin- cerely believe it will do more to de- ter people from engaging in war than anything written or spoken oni‘ the subject in years.” Great care ihas been taken not to glorify battle i \Fven the music stops in its motif of | ! glorification to sound the note of Schedules are now being arranged: terror and desolation which is the! Ly two railrcads entering Bemidji real truth of war. for special service to accnmmodate RIANS DISAPPROVE ~of 'HUNGA | ' out-of-town persons who will fit;l::‘ GERMANY'S CAMPAIGN Zurich, Switzerland, May 17.— Hungarians disapprove of Germany's! Zeppelin campaign. They object to it both on grounds of humanity and for what-they consider its uselessness. . Newspapers received here from the most important cities in Hungary are o0 Bemidji mext week to see Birth of a Nation.” Cls Between 5,000 and 8,000 people will come to Bemidji to see the great spectacle next week, according to re- liable estimates. The Grand mandg- ers have already scores of letters from nearhy towns and cities, order- General Lee in “The Birth of a Nation.” ‘of the United States expressed the! almost unanimous in . .deprecating ‘such methods. They do-not express themselves as freely as there if there | were no censorship, but they leave no doubt that the Hungarian people oppose this sort of warfare. LEE'S SURRENDER AT APPOMATOX DRAMATIC INCIDERT OIVIL WAR'S €LOSING. Donald Crisp ard Howard Gaye Cast ‘n Rolce of General Lee and General Grant. ihe Birth of a2 Natien” court house. Denald Crisp is cast for the role of Qeacrel U. S. Grant, cnacted by Howard Gay. southern commanders are shown, and the tableau presented when |scene cpens is a reproduction of-the | tamiliar paintings of this occasion | that occurred April 9, 1865. Lee has dressed for his last public occasion with great care. Grant on jackboots of the hard campaign. porters of the defeated confederacy wished to prolong the struggle by means of a guerilla warfare similar to that used by the Boers toward the close of the Anglo-Boer war. In fact John Wilkes Booth supposed that in killing President Lincoln he OF THE} One of the most striking scenes of | is the sur-} onder of Lee at the historic McLean | home in the vicinity of Appomatox | while Lee is| The mem- | | bers of the staffs of the northern and | the | the contrary lacked his full dress and | appeared in the ‘“fatigue” and dusty | - It is well known that many sup- |’ Elsie Stoneman and the Love-Sic k Guard in “Birth of a Nation.” would have the support of the Sn\l!h:l in a new struggle. But Lee was of | ‘a different temper. He realized that! ‘the South had been beaten in a fair | ;struggle on the fields of battle and that prolonging the-fighting would ! Taerely add to the lI»rrors aad, miseries endured by his people. - Therefore, afier the battle of Five! works, he op.icd nagotiations with Grant and on the morning of April ) _nder th:bhudding a2pple trees ¢f an ippomatox crehard were determinad lie terms of peace which were f0.m- . Ally writlen down at the Wilmeor-M» -can hou-e in the aft2tnion. ‘When General Robert E. Lee wis ed to make some marginal noies (n» the papers cf the final surrend.t, he asked the bystanders for a pencil. Strange to say, not one of the numer- ' Mae Marsh'as “Flora” in ous officers and aides-de-camp was| of a Nation.” able to offer him one. ~ At last, an Wanted officer of Lee's staff extracted a One experienced Shoe Sales- “The Birth pocket inkstand and feather quill from his kit, and with the aid of these the historic document was written and the names of Grant and Lee af- man. fixed at the bottom. 2 One experienced Furnishing Afterwards an effort was made to GoodsSalesman arrest and indict Lee for treason, but Grant, who knew Lee’s nobility of character and how he had fulfilled to the letter all the surrender obliga- tions, prevented any such dlmuem sequel to the grelt event % One experienced Lady Cashier. At THE LEADER FRI- DAY MORNING = Phone 87