"INTOLERANCE "

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3098, 31 May 1917, Page 3

"INTOLERANCE "

A GKIFFfTII MASTERPIECE. The box plans for tho first six nights jind first live afternoon pm'lonimnces of "Intolerance" will lie opened at the Bristol to-ninrrbw morning. I). W. Griffith's latest spectacle "Intolerance," a story of "Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages," ivill open at the King's Theatre on Tuesday evening, under the management of J. C. Williamson, Ltd. "Intolerance,"' it is stated, shows life's mighty drama down the centuries, seen as from a pinnaclo in ono sweeping glance. The spectacle shows iour separate and distinct stories. One is a modern tale of life in a western city; another shows life in Jerusalem and other parts of Judea in davs when the Nawrcne camo out of Galilee. The third theme deals with tho time of Charles IX and Catherine do Medici, when the Huguenots were massacred in medieval Paris, and the most striking of all the stories is tho one of Babylon the magnificent in the days when Bnlshazzar was conquered by Cyrus the Great and the wonder city of the ancient world was- overthrown. Tt is said that before tho audienco are ablo to grow tired of one period, they swing into another, from Babylon lo .Tudeii, back to the present and then to medieval Prance, until in the end they blend in onie splendid paean of humanity. Thrills follow thrills, the past is rc-crcatcd, and through all runs the truest lesson that history teaches, that love is mom than all, that freedom of Ihonehr. and action should never be shackled and that the world was made for love and laughter and happiness. These wonderful scenes aro illuminated and internreteil by a eymphonio score. | which will bo played by an orchestra of twenty-five. Thousands upon thousands of people .ire handled >in this huge pic<hiro. Griffith has Tebuilt aTid reppopled Babylon. He has recreated Judea in the days of the Nazarino. He has reconstructed Paris during tho Middle Ages.