"INTOLERANCE."

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 6, Issue 340, 21 December 1917, Page 3

"INTOLERANCE."

World's Wonder Picture On Friday evening next, Decern* ber 28th, at the Premier Hall, Pukekohe, J. C. Williamson, Ltd, will present the much discussed but widely approved picture spectacle "Intolerance," produced by D. W. Gdffith, ap'ly called "the genius of i the film " This mighty spectacle of j Lve's struggle throughout the ages has been a phenmenat success, and very widely discussed. Some, of the clergy have raised objections to ''lntolerance," but the major portion of public opinion has approved of the gigantic spectacles for "Intolerance" goes back 2000 years, when Babylon was in the height of its glory and voluptuousness, when Babylon was captured by Gyrus' hodes, when the Gentle Nazarene walked on the earth; when the Huguenots were massacred in Franco, and so on. And with it all there is interwoven a modern story parallel with the one of love against intolerance throughout the ages. Of "Intolerance" the Lyttelion Times printed:—"Divid Wark Griffith, the producer of "Intolerance" is frankly a propagandist, and in considering his stupendous film one cannot avoid the issue he raises; that through intolerance has come the sorrow of the world in all its ages. But whatever opinion may be held of Griffith's propaganda, there can be no two opinions concerning the immensity of his work. Conceived on a scald which crowds into insignificance anything ever attempted before on stage or screen, executed with an attention to detail which simply daggers, and depicted with a dramatic and artistic |sense which leaves one mumbling in an effort to find suitable words Intolerance ttands supreme as a spectacle, is a drama of life, as a work of pantomimic art. The seige and fall of Babylon is bigger than any description in words can measure. It is an elimination of 1 time to give a twentieth century ; audience a view of the sixth century I before Christ. Babylon's fall is no mere trickery of scenery —it is an I actual fact. Nothing more stupeni dous, nothing more electrifying has been seen. { Popular price i are to be charged, [ and the plan is at u e Bookery.