"BROKEN BLOSSOMS."
It needed the genius of Thomas Burke to make high romance from the lives of the Chinese quarter of London —Limehouse—and his book of stories, "Limehouse Nights," burst on the literary world like a star shell. It needed the genius of D. W. Griffith to make a photoplay of equal artistic value. He took "The Chink and the Girl," and from it fashioned "Broken Blossoms" into the screen drama which has possibly caused more comment than any production in the new art forum. A prologue of Eastern settings and new lighting effects will be a novelty for Wellington audiences). The picture' is at Everybody's Theatre, commencing Friday, 23rd June.
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Evening Post, Volume CIII, Issue 142, 19 June 1922, Page 3
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