"WAY DOWN EAST."
To entertain" an audience through a whole evening is a great achievement for a single picture play, and that is what "Way Down East," the production of D. W. Griffith, succeeds in doing at the Grand Opera House nightly. There is little of the artificial atmosphere of a typical American "movie" about "Way Down East." The story and the setting seem to bear the,stamp of artistic truth throughout. Cast in the New England countryside of the days before motors, it shows a life now rapidly vanishing. The scenes are both of summer and winter, and it is hard to say which is the more beautiful. The final passage of the storm and 'the' rescue across ice floes of the river will long remain in the memory.
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Evening Post, Volume CIII, Issue 53, 4 March 1922, Page 7
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