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The Birth of a Nation will onn-ttnue It# •njra^ment throughout the comlrif week in the Detroit opera house with the exceptioB of Monday afternoon and evening. when :he Friars' Frolic will he in the theater. •The Birth of a Nation, pictures a time that tried men's souls. There is the typical southern home where r.il is pood cheer. War's alarms have . not yet disturbed Its serenity. A i northerner Is visiting in oid college friend snd in their playfut wrestling , and chasing each other about the old mansion and grounds, we hare pure comedy and the best of good feling. , No matter If within a few months they are to die on the field of battle, i enemies, but clasped in each other’s ' arms. Then there is the young daugh- I ter of the southern home up to all sorts of tricks with her brothers, sister and their guests Later we see ; her tragic end, when to save herself t from a fate worse than death she Limps from a high cliff Again there i _J the scene in ‘the quarters wherethe negroes are showing off for the benefit of northern visitors. There Is the shuffle, buck snd wing. Mississippi Hawyer, turkey In the straw1' and other steps in which the plantation folk of those days delight* ed. Later in the play they too have their aerlous role#. And so throughout It all there are bits of the lighter ahade of life to be overcast by the ornber later on which makes The lirth of a Nation such a truthful | ilcture of the time# whose life it por-rays. Unquestionably one of the bigfeatures of the spectacle is the musical score which accompanies It snd which Is played by a symphony orchestra or twenty-flve.
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Detroit Times
Detroit, Michigan, US
Sat, Jun 03, 1916
Page 7
Full Page
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