STRAND THEATRE.
Heralded as the crowning achievement of the productive genuis of D. W. Griffith, "Orphans of the Storm," with Lillian and Dorothy Gish, which is now being screened at the Strand Theatre, comes with reminiscences of another day —that of "Intolerance." Here is a story told in the great style of Griffith of two lovely girls in the most bloody revolution of all history: Beginning with the" simplicity surrounding the two orphan girls, one.blind and dependent on the more resourceful one, the story develops at an amazing speed to the most vivid description of those tumultuous days when King Louis XVI. regined— the days of the French Revolution. The wizard hand of Griffith has never for one minute allowed suspense to lag. It is one continuous building of situation upon situation moving in crescendo fashion to an apex of dramatic fury, and then pausing only for a second to continue its sweep like an on-rushing army. The supporting programme is good.
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Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 124, 26 May 1923, Page 9
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162STRAND THEATRE. Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 124, 26 May 1923, Page 9
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