“THE SCARLET LETTER”

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 93, 11 July 1927, Page 13

“THE SCARLET LETTER”

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s attraction, “The Scarlet Letter,” will be screened at the Majestic Theatre shortly. The “Motion Picture World” has written of the film as follows:—“Lillian Gish has played her Mimi in ‘La Boheme,’ her White Sister and her Civil War heroine, but a new Lillian Gish astounded the audience last evening when she presented Hester Prynne. She seemed literally inspired. ‘The Scarlet Letter,’ Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s screen triumph, founded on Nathaniel Hawthorne’s classical novel, the fame of which is world-wide, proved an ideal vehicle for the popular star, its dramatic plot of a woman carrying a brand of shame through life for the sake of the man she loves, making theme so powerful that it enabled her to rise to the heights of true genius. Consummate artistry marks every phase of her struggle against intolerance, and the mighty climax holds one spellbound.” The original music score, compiled for the New York presentation, will be played by the orchestra.