"INTOLERANCE."
A magnificent spectacle, striking in even its smallest details, is the picture "Intolerance," now drawing great crowds to The King's Theatre. Founded on the world-old idea of retribution in kind— an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth —the picture is a wonderful one. It carries the spectator from the barbaric magnificence of old Babylon to the Court of Charles IX. of France ; chariots of old to the modern locomotive and the motor-car. Perhaps the most wonderful portion of the picture from a spectacular point of view is that depicting the great conflict between Cyrus and Belshazzar, between the Persian hordes and Babylonian garrisons. The realistic presentation of the battle is a thing to marvel at. Effect is added to this particular part of the wonderful picture by a really fine orchestra, which also supplies most suitable incidental music throughout the screening. The attention of the audience is held from the beginning of the pictm-e to the end—three hours later. The picture will be screened for several more nights and afternoons, and should attract crowded houses till the end of the season.
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Evening Post, Volume XCIII, Issue 136, 8 June 1917, Page 3
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