Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 January 1917 — Intolerance. [ARTICLE]

Intolerance.

Chicago, 111., Jan. 29.—The current life in Chicago is being diverted in new directions, and the heart of the big eity is . being broadened through the effects of a play which has taken a firm and lasting grip upon the whole community. D. W. Griffith’s colossal spectacle, “Intolerance,” at the Colonial theatre, has proved to be more than massive entertainment for the popualce. It is a powerful lever for lifting the level of humanity. Already a number of sensational events in Chicago’s daily life have occurred which have roused the interest of the nation, and which are traceable in one way or another to the tremendous story of mankind through the ages, unwound in Griffith’s “Intolerance.” The latest sensation is the case of Marjorie Delbridge, better known as “(Mammy’s baby.” This girl, born of white parents, was raised from infancy by a southern negro ‘mammy.” Despite the love that existed between the white child and her mammy, certain public officials stepped in and insisted that the girl be removed from the home of the negro woman.

Half Chicago was in turmoil over the merits of the ease, a great many of both northern and southern birth taking up the cause of “Mammy.’’ It was then that a woman Good Samaritan came to attempt to solve the problem and renew happiness both for Marojrie and her doting “mammy.” She was Mrs. Louis Brock, whd took Marjorie .nto her home with the understanding that the child shou 1 d have the privileges S seeing her “mammy” every day. The effects of “Intolerance” on modern society are no more pronounced than its successful appeal to the great amusement-seekin-p' public in a radius of hundreds of miles of Chicago. Adv.