PRINCE EDWARD
“THE SCARLET LETTER” The picture programme at the Prince Edward Theatre features “The Scarlet Letter,” and portrays Lillian Gish in one of the most successful performances in her career. She has a splendid support in Lars Hanson, known as the Swedish Barrymore. The story is full of emotion. It is Nathaniel Hawthorne’s wonderful story of love, sacrifice, and intolerance in the days of the' Pilgrim Fathers. The film version is historically accurate. Technically perfect though the picture is, it is the inspired acting of Lillian Gish that lifts it to the heights. Entering with amazing whole-heartedness into the theme of the story, she brings before one’s eyes Hester Prynne herself the joyous, impulsive girl, who, surrounded by intolerance and repression, is forced to carry a badge of shame through life to shield the man she loves. In such scenes as the amazing pillory scene, where her lover, under the pretence of exhorting her. voices his love and remorse, while she vows deathless love, the poignant drama o the situation is so intense as to be alnfost unbearable.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 113, 3 August 1927, Page 15
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179PRINCE EDWARD Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 113, 3 August 1927, Page 15
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