EMPIRE

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 350, 10 May 1928, Page 14

EMPIRE

“THE SCARLET LETTER” It is more than sixty years since >.athaniel Hawthorne’s classic storv. The Scarlet Letter,” became recognised as the greatest dramatic novel ever written. Year after year it h+s been produced as a stage-play, and atways with unvarying succes. Now it has been filmed, and is being shown at the Empire Theatre. It would be difficult indeed to find a better Hester Prynne, the heroine of this impelling story of intolerance and mighty self-sacrifice, than Lillian Gish. The audiences that have already witnessed the screening aver that even in The VVmte Sister” she did not equal the dramatic intensity of her present portrayal. Ably supporting Miss Gish and enabling her to score heavily in the dramatic sequences which bring them together, is Lars Hanson, the Swedish fSl ar i, wh ° has the important role of the Rev. Dimmesdale, the man who loves, and is loved by, Hester, and for whose sake she wears the scarlet brand oi sname. “Galloping Fury,” starring Hoot Gibson, is the second feature on the programme. v

th^ et .T GO , I<lWyn ' Mayer announces that two stars, John Gilbert, William Uired es ', and r £ ,roth 'y Sebastian, a fea pla n£ r \? ave rer »ewed their conS. ct * wlt *\ that organisation. Joe the title-writer, has also rehl® affiliations with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.