‘THE WHITE SISTER’

Evening Star, Issue 19272, 10 June 1926, Page 3

‘THE WHITE SISTER ’

LILLIAN GISH FEATURED ' The White Sister ’ to bo screened at the Octagon and Empire Theatres, Commencing on Friday, June 18, has been produced on a most lavish scale. Dainty, demure Lillian Gish, heroine of ‘ The Birth of, a Nation-,’ Way Down East,’ ‘Orphans of the Storm,’ etc., is the star. In brief, the story tells of an Italian prince who is fatally injured in the hunting field. His daughter by his first marriage destroys his will and K> makes her step-sister a pauper. The reason for her ,act'is because she. herself is in love with the soldier man to whom the step-sister, is secretly affianced. Drafted to East Africa, the soldier is reported killed. The shock to Angela is so overwhelming that she is taken to the hospital conducted by the White Sisters. Recovering eventually, she joins this noble hand or women. But, however, the soldier is not dead, and he returns to Angela, and life becomes tragic for them both. Angela realises that she is wedded to her vows—and so does the soldier. Vesuvius, angry and- uncontrollable, on a languorous night belches forth molten, lava on the village, over which it menacingly towers. Comes the warning ■of the peojale by Angela’s lover; then is seen the ruin of the town by the eruption, and flooding by the bursting of a huge - dam. The soldier lover is killed. Angela may go on with her work of charity arid sacrifice in peace. Artistically and in every other way ‘ Tho White Sister ’ is, without exception, the finest picture of its kind. Lillian Gish is tho only one who could have carried the noble traditions of the greatest personalities of Iho speaking stage to the silver sheet, ns she does in ‘ The White Sister.’ The box plans for the Octagon are now on view at Begg’s, while seats for •the Empire may be had at The Bristol.