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BOWIE THEATER 21-1-1-2
The Dowie theater brings back the forerunner of all the Hollywood Spectaculars. D. W. Griffith's "The Birth of a Nation" began show- ing tonight---44 years after its New York pre- mier. "n estimated 100 million persons have seen the movie, and one of its greatest fans came over from Dallas to Fort Worth today to see it again. Bowie Manager Thomas Lutrell welcomes Wallace Walthall, whose brother Henry B. Walthall played the part of the Little kol- onel, the male lead opposite Lillian Uish. Walthall says his brother became famous in the role and was still playing in pictures when he died in 1936. 1althall first saw the movie at a Birmingham, Alabama, operaZ house in M,rch, 1915. H. said 65 workmen travelled around the country with the movie, handling projecters and equipment. A 25-piece band tint alagg with them