AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 9 May 1923, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

TO-NIGHT AND THURSDAY. The long looked for picture, f). W. CiriffiLh’s masterpiece, “Orphans of the Storm,” will he screened at the Princess Theatre for two nights on'v. c-rmmoncing to-night. This big id reel feature excels in spectaeulnri.sm ..nvthing accomplished on the screen. In wealth of detail, mob scenes, in magnificence of both interior and exterior settings, and in costuming, 1). W. Griffith, in “Orphans of tlie Storm,” has achieved something not yet equalled, says the critic for tlie "Daily News.” It is a masterpiece of motion picture art—in all that the word implied, wrote Curran D. Swint in the “Call” and “Post." The picture shows all the recklessness and extravagance of the king and the aristocrats 01 France as displayed at costly fetes and feasts. There are orgies which crowd tlie silver sheet witli a kaleidoscope of beautiful, pleasure-maddened women in bizarre, extreme headdress and rniment, and powdered, boribboned men in a wild riot of luxurious folly. Mr Griffith paints a lurid picture of tlie conditions leading up to the French Revolution. Ho gives in one scene the lavish feasts and waste of tlie aristocrats, and in the next the starving, struggling people, said the critic- for tlie “Bulletin.” The emotional scenes between the Gish sisters, Hiss Lillian and Hiss Dorothy, are among thp most powerful the screen has yet known. Tlie prices for this picture are dress circle 2s 2d, stalls Is 8c!, and children Is Id. Patrons are advised to come early to secure seats.