Saturday, May. 19, 1923

Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln is to be the subject of a monumental film entitled The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln. It will be first exhibited in Washington next winter for the edification of the President and Congress.

Episodes will be "shot" in the regions of the District of Columbia, Virginia, Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, New Orleans. Use will be made of the Potomac, James, Ohio, Mississippi rivers.

The minute research work on which the picture will be based will be conducted by Dr. Gilbert Ellis Bailey of the University of Southern California, old friend and neighbor of Lincoln's.