"INTOLERANCE"

Grey River Argus, 27 August 1917, Page 4

"INTOLERANCE"

COMMENCING MATINEE, WEDNESDAY. What is said universally to be the j most wonderful motion picture ever yet conceived and executed will be exhibited under the J. C. Williamson Lbd, management at the Opera House, ! comencing at the matinee on Wednesday and again on Wednesday and Thursday evenings. This is D. W. , Griffiths super-super picture — of Intolerance. A leading Australian daily wrote as follows: "A woman's endless ly rocking a cradle, alone in a vast room, the link that binds the present ( with the past and future; rocking, ' rocking ! through storm and sunshine, battle and bloodshed, peace and strife — this is the .thing that stamps itself indelibly on one's impression in "Intolerance." Described as "A Sun ( Play of the Ages" this latest work of D. W. Griffiths makes history. Before it all other film productions fade into insignificance. Nothing that has gone j before can compare with the impres'siveness of this work. The story of J "Intolerance." is a good deal like an Oriental rug. There are four separate themes and woven in fragmentary episodes in brilliant and sombre colours without any. regular- sequences, often ■ seeming disjointed, but in the end blending in a marvellously impressive whole. It deals with the fruits of intolerance to-day, in medieval France, i at the time of Christ and in ancient Babylon. The author , strikes out. He attacks great . foundations, assails would-be reformers, and holds up to the mirror of understanding the effect 'of "in various, fields. It is impossible to adequately describe this picture. One is overcome with a sense of the bigness of it. The magni- , tude of the producer's work is overI whelming. From a rather unimpressive opening the play sweeps on, gathering force until at the finale it leaves you gasping with the immensity of the, theme and the- masterly 'manner in which it is handled. In adjdition to satisfying the sensational ■call for novelty upon the stage and j the screen Griffiths gave the world to- . day something that .places the film: . spectacle \upon a higher plane and fcarves a ni«he for him in thp ' ; «tory *f the stage. The compieteucr; of his attack and the comprehensive detail which he crowds into these fourfold stories staggers one by its magnitude. Only three performances of "Intoler•anee" can be given in Greymouth. At ,the matinee on Wednesday afternoon at 2 p.m. on Wednesday and Thursday evenings. Children will be admitted to the matinee at half-price j Prices of admission will be 3/-, 2/-, I 1/-. Seats for Dress Circle may be re- J served at the Bristol. .