‘THE WHITE SISTER'
LILLIAN GISH PICTURE COSIIUC Commencing on Friday, June 18, at the Octagon and Empire Theatres, ‘ The White Sister ’ should prove a big attraction. Italy has given to the world of literature some of its greatest love tragedies, one of them being F. Marion Crawford's ‘ The White Sister,’ Though this novel is an English classic, its theme and atmosphere are Italian. Its story deals with tho trials of the ill-starred love of a young girl and her soldier lover, wiio find an impassable barrier between them. Accompanying the story is an undercurrent of interesting detail and events which leads up to a grand climax when mighty Vesuvius devastates the surrounding country with fire and flood. Heading the cast is Lillian Gish, who lias supporting her several well-known players—Ronald Column, Gail Kane, J. Barney Sherry, and Charles Lane —and a subsidiary cast of specially selected Italian players. Miss Gish gives a wonderful study of “ Angola.” the heroine of the novel, win found the hand of Fate against her when she came to love the dashing captain of engineers, Giovanni Sevcri.
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Evening Star, Issue 19268, 5 June 1926, Page 10
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