3!0DT. MARCH 6, 1916
PLATTSMOTJTH SEMI-TVEEFILY JOURNAL.
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Why you should see
"The Birthof a Nation
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"It is a brilliant, vivid, stiring master-
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piece.
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Booth Tarkington.
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In the short space of three hours the
audience sees, hears and feels a period
fifteen years." Rev. Father John Talbot
Smith.
"I know it is true, because I have lived
through the actual realities."
Rev. Dr. Thomas B. Gregory.
"Never before has such a whirl wind com
bination of story, spectacle and tense
drama been unrolled."
New York Evening Sun.
"It is worth $5.00 a seat."
C. F. Zittel, N. Y. Evening Journal.
"It is history vitalized History by light
ning flash. Go to see it because of the
wonder of the pictures themselves, and
finally, go to see it because is will make
a better American of you for out of the
baptism of blood of the Civil War was
born the new nation, one and indivisible."
Dorothy Dix.
PPU u'S)
A Grand Symphony
Orchestra
I I OF TWENTY-FIVE PIECES!
NEVER before, even in Grand Opera, has mat
ter in glowing and highly colored action been
so masterfully, effectively brought out by means of
musical accompaniment as in "The Birth of a Na
tion." Every single passage, whether it be a terrific
battle scene, a cunning bit of statecraft -or maneu
ver, a snatch of tender pathos, a homely folk of char
acter sketch or a ripping humorous view, is musical
ly explained to the amazed spectator and listener.
It's bewildering sound and light and color effects
are simply wonderfuL
This Grand Symphony
Orchestra
is carried by the company and every member
of the organization is a capable sololist.
Presented by ELLBOTT & SMEMAN
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Not one in this section can afford to miss this. It has been endorsed by the greatest
ministers of the world. It shows what war costs mothers, sisters and wives. It shows
the coming of the Prince of Peace. It will make better Americans of you.
Seats on sale at Weyrich & Habraba's Drug Store. Mail your orders if out of town.
Matinee 25c, 50c, 75c and $1
Evening 50c, 75c, $1, $1.50 and $2
Highly Important "The Birth of the Nation" will never be presented in any but the highest ciass thea
tres at prices customary charged in such playhouses. D. W. GRIFFITH.