ENTERTAINMENTS.

Mataura Ensign, 17 August 1917, Page 5

ENTERTAINMENTS.

"INTOLERANCE” TO-NIGHT. At the Princess Theatre this evening at 8 o'clock, J. C. Williamson, Ltd., will present the second screening ol 1). W. Griffith’s marvellous picture. “Intolerance." Jt is sale to state that no picture has aroused sink exclamations of wonder and at its theme and gigantic spectacles as has ” Intolerance.” It is interesting from an industrialist point of view to reprint what Air H. E. Boote, of the Sydney ‘Worker,’ wrote of ‘‘lntolerance” : ‘‘lt is hard to believe that this amazing pinv lias been conceived in a modern ora.'in and realised by modern ingenuity. (i i iftith (the producer) must have lived in all those places. How else could lie make me know Belshazzar (King ol Babylon) as 1 know Jones and llotiinson f How else could he familiarise mo with Jerusalem and its motley crowd till I am on the same intimate teVms with them as with Woolloomonloo and its ‘blokes ami donahs’ 'f I have seen them with these actual bodily eyes of mine. I have followed the barbarous in oh of Homans and Jews hastening to the sights on Calvary. I lane set’ll the wedding feast of Cana and Christ sitting among the guests. 1 have been present at the shaming of those who took the woman in adultery, when no man dared east tin; first stone because' he was not without sin. I have seen lln> stupendous perspectives ol a city that was Mistress of the World when the peoples who were to produce tin* great nations of to-day still hunted wito stone axes ami made their homes in eaves. Am! 1 have semi the injustie' ami despotism that carry on their devastating work behind the Statue ol Liberty in tin* greatest Republic of all time. I have seen it. For this is not a story. It is not a play. It is a revelation. It places it side by side with (he present and we look from one *'■ the other bewildered, for the past is the image of the present, the present a replica of the past..’’ The box plan is at Steans’. STEVENSON'S PICTURES. -s Aristocratic modern society is stripped bare of glamor in "The Masqueraders.” a dramatisation of (he play by 11. C Jom’s. «• I" "Liar” and "Hypocrites” fame, which will be presented at (he Princess Theatre to-morrow (Saturday) afternoon ami evening. 'I he play is full of surprises and is presented with lavish completeness. 'I lie supporting numbers are "A Trht Thromdi Sweden” ho. "He,- Kathe.-'s Climbs'," a Keystone comedy : "Making ( 1 an' Eclair film Vif interest; also the popular Vim comedy, "I he Water Cure."