The Abilene Reporter-News (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 74, No. 180, Ed. 2 Thursday, December 16, 1954 Page: 4 of 44
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Girls and Boys
Answer to Previous Puzzle
A A THE ABILEN E REPORTER-NEWS
Abilene, Texas, Thursday Evening, December 16, 1954
ACROSS
Feminine
I Masculine
appellation
$ Lohengrin’ >
bride
11 Sea eagle
13 First woman
14 Large tube
15 Surface a
street
14 Sickness
(med.)
17 Encourage
It Greek letter
22 All
33 Hangman’s
.9 Ailing Alter
20 Mineral rock “ Repers
DOWN IlelsS
1 Victim of raereme
leprosy
2 Speaker O Lis A
3 Assail Eggs
4 Observe APE
5 Send payment 51
4 Ellipsoidal Fuels
7 Shouts wiem-i
8 Uncle Tom’s UR 1
friend
9 Toils 31 Thus
14 Cubic meters M The---
11 Fall flower
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GECL
30 Type measure 44 Wife of
Abraham
brothers
IN HOLLYWOOD
Ire, Money Still Fall
On 'Birth of Nation'
11 Rat
24 Frightener
27 City in
Nevada
It Sound of
disapproval
29 Pedal digit
Il Sorrowful
32 Doctrine
33 Individual
34 Challenge
36 Seize
It Fondle
41 Irritate
43 Entire
44 Brazilian
macaw
44 Golf mound
47 Pace
49 Decay
50 Perches
51 Girl’s name 1
52 Peer Gynt’s in
mother
53 Shield bearing 5
54 To cut
55 Fowl 5
54 Vegetable
Ike Hits Belief
Another Planet
Sends ‘Saucers'
WASHINGTON, Dec. 16 @ -
President Eisenhower struck a
blow Wednesday at any lingering
suspicion that folks on another
planet are dispatching flying sau-
cers to the earth.
He said an Air Force man had
told him it was completely inac-
curate to believe such objects came
from outside space.
A reporter remarked at the Pres-
35 Feminine
name
37 Dress
38 Insect
39 Hurls
*1 Communion
plate
42 Set anew
45 “Abie's Irish
45 Pastry
to Weep
By BOB THOMAS
HOLLYWOOD un — Recently a
syndicate announced it had bought
rights for the refilming of “The
Birth of a Nation."
The news brought a blast from
the National Assn. for the Ad-
vancement of Colored People,
which said it was “as uncompro-
misingly opposed" to the film today
as it was in 1*13, when "Birth"
was first released.
Thus the storm which "The Birth
ol a Natioh” aroused when it came
out 40 years ago still rages. Per-
haps the most important movie in
screen history, it is also the most
controversial.
The picture was the product of
Kentucky-born D. W. Griffith, and
even his most ardent supporters
do not claim that it lacks preju-
dice. The authoritative book "The
Rise of the American Film" de-
clares: “The film was a passion-
ate and persuasive avowal of the
inferiority of the Negro."
Scenes depicted freed slaves as
"arrogant, lustful, villainous," Ne-
gro congressmen drinking heavily
and reclining in Congress with bare
feet on desks, other Negroes mak-
ing advances to white girls.
The picture drew a violent reac-
tion in many of the cities where it
was shown. There were disturb-
ances in Now York and a race riot
in Boaion and other cities where
abolitionist feelings still were
strong. Figures like Jane Addams.
President Charles Eliot of Har-
vard, Francis Hackett and Oswald
Garrison Villard attacked the film
Griffith was astounded and upset
by the tirades He replied with a
pamphlet, “The Rise and Fall of
Free Speech to America." The
mulatto leader was not the heavy
in the film, he argued. He claimed
the real villain was a character
based on the Reconstruction polit-
ico Thaddeus Stevens.
The director’s answer to his
critics was in his next film, "In-
tolerance.” If “The Birth of a Na-
tion” was stupendous in its time.
"Intolerance" wee colossal, Grif-
fith poured a million dollars of his
“Birth” profits into the new film,
which he said was "a protest
against despotism and injustice in
every form." It didn’t approach
the success of its predecessor.
How much did "The Birth of a
Nation" maker
Film historians have debated the
question. Variety once cited esti-
mates of 1( million dollars, which
would make it the biggest movie
moneymaker by tar. Griffith him- ,
self once told me that figure was J
correct. And Donald Crips pays
that author Dixon collected 12%
million as his one-quarter share.
Others scoff at this claim. In
1926, film historian Terry Ramsays
Mid the film bad earned 15 million.
The truth is that no one will ever
know. Because he was strapped
for financing, Griffith had to sell
rights to the film in several states.
No accounting was possible. , ,
The picture continues to earn
money. It is shown annually at the
silent movie house here and it
revived periodically all over the .
world.
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FINE WATCH
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Jewels
PRICES GOOD
THURSDAY, FRIDAY,
SATURDAY, SUNDAY.
CLIMATE
Miar
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MIAMI, Fla on
scene of boom
to years ago, is I
the rate of about
residents every
time, the experts
be another debacl
Unlike the fren
lation of the ‘20s,
eri’ boom. They
selling new house
ands.
It wasn’t like t
’Florids land rus
with a crash in 1
OAK
ABILE
recent reporta of flying saucers
had come to his attention. He
added that the last thing he had
heard on the subject was from a
trusted Air Force man, who said
that as far as he knew it was
completely inaccurate to believe
they came from some other planet.
ident’s news conference that recent
reports indicate some European
governments are investigating the
saucer problem quite seriously. He
also said that not long ago a book
was published in this country that
purported to show the Air Force
thought some of the reported flying
objects might be of extra-terres-
trial origin.
The President said none of the
Milk Sales Rise
DALLAS, Dec. 16 (*-North Tex-
as milk sales averaged 1,760,950
pounds daily in November. Class 1
sales hit a 3-year high of 1,680,699
pounds on the average daily, By-
ford W. Bain, North Texas market
administrator, said.
Some 3,071 products delivered
milk in the area last month.
Hearings Planned
WASHINGTON » — Chairman
Hendrickson (R-NJ) said Wednes-
day his Senate Juvenile Delin-
quency subcommittee hopes to hold
public hearings this month on the
traffic in pornographic materials.
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BRUSH SETS now only 1
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The Abilene Reporter-News (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 74, No. 180, Ed. 2 Thursday, December 16, 1954, newspaper, December 16, 1954; Abilene, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1649666/m1/4/: accessed July 6, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Abilene Public Library.