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D. W. GRIFFITH’S “ABRAHAM LINCOLN” Dominate Your Paper With This Ad Smash LINCOLN wtth Walter Huston A decade and a half ago, D. W. Griffith, dreamer, idealist, sculptor in living figures, by his genius lifted a tattered and struggling art to world-wide recognition with his immortal "The Birth of a Nation." In a day he transformed the world of pictures! And now, the great master returns to grasp the leadership of the talking picture screen and carry its banners to new and lofty heights! Again, as in "The Birth of a Nation," D. W. Griffith has chosen as his theme that tumultuous time that revolved around the colossal figure of Lincoln, days pregnant with great events, hours freighted with titanic emotions, moments charged with tender loves, bit¬ ter hates, sacrifice and devotion. Against this vast panorama moves Lincoln, boy, youth, man— his life an epic of America, his story the saga of a soul and a nation. Not the Lincoln of bronze monuments and marble sculpture —but the Lincoln of flesh and blood, divinely human, jesting, lov¬ ing, thinking, fighting! In sweep and spectacle it is a picture without parallel! Thousands of people surge through its mighty scenes, battles are fought, Sheridan rides, history is written and Lincoln lives again in Griffith's supreme achievement! Certainly, it is his prerogative to exceed himself, to reach beyond realms already ex¬ plored, to find new colors in the spectrum of human emotions, new strings to play on the harp of life and give to the world a new conception of moving drama, divinely alive with voice! Original Story by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET. Author of the epic poem sen¬ sation, "Dohn Brown's Body." The cast includes Hobart Bosworth, Una Merkel, Kay Hammond. UNMTS0 ARTISTS T H R O^BIL l • MHY O CR Jg £ N 19 —5 Column Ad (Mat 40 Cents; Cut $1.25)