STRAND THEATRE.

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 123, 25 May 1923, Page 2

STRAND THEATRE.

D. W. Griffiths's crowning achievement, "Orphans of the Storm," is the principal offering on the new programme now showing at the Strand Theatre. In this great drama of the French Revolution, there is told perhaps the greatest story of all time. All the glory and splendour of royal Versailles is there; and with it, all the fiendish cruelty and lust of the old regime in France. Following upon this sceen of splendid vice conic the hideous barbaric passions of the Revolution;, the starved and ragged crowd rushes the Bastille; the dreadful Reign of Terror runs rivers of blood. Intense and beautiful pathos is acted by the two lovely Gish sisters, Dorothy and Lilian, who are screened as two girls left helpless orphans in the time of terror. One girl is blind, which permits the weaving of a beautiful tale of sisterly protection and tenderness.- And into the lives of one of the girls is brought a touching love story—she is saved from outrage, and her gallant young aristocratic defender afterwards owes to her his own salvation from the guillotine. In addition ■ Larry Semon is seen in his latest comedy, "The Agent," while the supporting programme is interesting and varied.