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KTE8TEKN, TUESDAY EVENING, A*• cyMMitr «*• »•»— •« ■»■■■■hmxm otM toto ValM - IT----0By a Wtaitr to DmBottOD-)British i 2 don't bcU»T« I htf* «var MM any--«et a f thin* in the ajammmmt Ua* *urt* aqual a. l I to th* wosdwtiil marts In—nt no11' ysos- i produeto at tto opt* fcottaainiwiY i Uto rt—E to «to onto at thaslt;Mf to ; beginning until “Tba Eto la aaaanato in big lattara at tto U**.. It la a living: . . (picture or aeries to pictures ahnirtiif some to Use most thrilling event* to the *• *fr IcSvii war in such rapid aucmsston that y , tim spectator holds his breath and canhardly believe hi* eyes.The Birth to a Katkxn** la a dramatizetlon to Thomaa Dixon*# “The Clansman■** It will be reiaembtttd that Ututed: this man Dixon wrote a aariaa to tii-i terljr pro-rebel novela in which Is*. 9 diy ; Stonewall Jackson and the aoeth were i? two . glorified and the cause of the north and s lead * lu heroes were sneered at and derided-f«d by , Dixon’s stories were well written but j so manifestly unfair and prejudieto. died. that they awakened the an**r of therk olt; - old union soldier* and many public :4d*r. _ libraries refused to have Dixon’* hooka i writ- - on their shelves.t itkft; But the events touched on in Tha : Clansman** were so thrilling and the „f (be period of our national history covered endent by the story was #Q full of interestingt loaf ported Ion 1*I haveHigh Srlt; But In 1 AndOod'a i ■till 1 And toClrls acameson- features that It wa* thought best tont and develop the story In a photo-play for i I werejtbo “movies. To do justice to ihej j parties who did the work It must b* j nism*, (admitted that they tried to be fair, and,: ridi-! “ a consduence, the play Is better« 1 than the novel. Some of the worst in flin?3lt;1n,! things in tho book have been omitted jof aii-ua the« can-doncesand. on the whole* the plot conforms to the truth of history as well as In the majority of such plays.Briefly It may be said that a southern family Jiving in South Carolina. lt;on-wiwo!sis tins: of the parents* three ions and| two daughter*, form the parties on oneof the ! “d*- Thaddeua Stevens, his da ugh-j..ter and son«. are the others In a little; love story which winds through the ter-1 : nble record of the war* * to* - — —--Violet mayd. in*»brighten the side of a coal-beap. Se-' .1e“1 cession, civil war, battles and destruc-‘ to llon lolkiW ift rapid succession and theJ hel° eye is bewildered and the nerves ”** ** * strained to their utmost tn watching] -_r * . awful scenes of carnage and blood pckool- j pictured with realistic fidelity. Tw o of 1 the sons of the southern family are, slain, the south is conquered, and Gen-: eral Lee surrenders to General Grant | at Appomattox. The assassination ofj to th* Abraham Lincoln is enacted veilh pain-1 «cxico_ ful correctness and a nation mourns, j . three The second part takes up the troubles j Alton of the reconstruction period, the work! ; of ihe Ku Klux Klaxi. and the out-111been i rages of the negroes under “‘Carpetpolice * hMg*' rule. One of the daughter* of thej southern family Is In love with the son;t handsome confederate officer, in a series of pictures portraying with start-1Slins: realla«* the cruelties of the negroes] lL v” ian* the punishment meted out bv thetKver. dreams her so who Is with h normal ness, a ho to k seas TUsuohim asto pickcovershaveLookslly ofWhichreasonugly nner?,to th« them, whose the aviGood the eh* of hanlt;curlywith lt;2 possess other ] good lc healthsa kind worth : than toThe places quality other i makes a man develoj he vne those : to her can be meat h
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Oshkosh Daily Northwestern
Oshkosh, Wisconsin, US
Tue, Aug 31, 1915
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