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"INTOLERANCE."

WORLD WONDER PICTURE. "Intolerance," the great D. W. Griffith production, was seen at Everybody's Uieatrc last night by a packed house. There are (>3,000 persons in the production (more than the population of Taranaki), 18,500 "feet of film, and 7000 separate pictures. It. takes three hours to show, cost £400,000 and took two and a-half years to make. It is really a gveat picture.

The story is told in four plain little stories, which begin like four currents, looked at from a hilltop. As they flow they grow nearer and nearer together, and faster and faster until, in the end, in the last act, they mingle in one mighty river of expressed emotion.

The modern story shows how it is possible for men pretending philanthropy to really work injury and misery to their fellows. The chief figures in this modern story, The Boy and The Dear One, are drawn into the maelstrom of a great strike. This strike is forced on the mill hands through their millionaire employer. 110 cuts their wages, which are already miserably insufficient, in order to pay for his charities, and to furnish funds to his sister, who, having grown too old to enjoy the pleasure of youth, turns the money to self-seeking meddlers. Rather spitefully Miss Jenkins strives to uplift a more or less fallen humanity. The boy's father is killed in this strike. Because of it, be goes to tile city, where he is led into a vicious -life, but in the end lie is redeemed by the perfect love of The Dear One. In the general exodus to the city goes The Friendless One, a neighbor of The Boy. In the city she meets The Musketeer of the Slums, and is dragged down into the under-currents. In the second tale is seen the Man of Men, the humble Nazarene, walking' among and teaching His people. He is seen teaching His law, the law of love, and always kind tolerance, and later He is seen to fall before the lash of the Roman soldiery, and perish on the Cross of Calvary.

The third story is placed in France, in the Middle Ages. The magnificence of the court of Charles IX. is shown, the festivities in the streets-t-in honor of the betrothal of the Catholic princess, Marguerite of Valois, and the Protestant prince, Henry of Navarre. The heroine, Brown Eyes, her sweetheart, and her family, visit France to see those magnificent celebrations, but Catherine de Medici is using the Catholic party against Coligny and' the Protestant?. In the first act Catherine uses the incident of the massacre of the Catholics by the Hugrenots at Nimes. to inflame her followers against the Protestants, and iir the last act she instigates the massacre of, the Protestants on St. Bartholomew's Morn, Brown Eves, the little Huguenot maiden, being one of the victims caught in the trap. A Catholic friend on the other side of the town gives her sweetheart the iiadges of safety that distinguish the Catholics from the Proestants, and he rushes wildly through the tumultuous streets in an' attempt to save her.' while she and her father are barricaded in their little home.

The fourth story is placed in Babylon, at the time when Belshazzar was ruling for his father, Nabonidus, a lover of and religious toleration. On this account he welcomed the worship of Islitar, the love goddess, and this aroused the antagonism of the intolerant High Priest of Bei. A little Mounain Girl, from the wilds, is in love with Belshaz,zar. lie saved her from being sold in tlio marriage market, and on another occasion he saved from a sentence of doath imposed upon her by the High Priest of Bel. She had nearly strangled an undcrpriest for speaking'ill of Belshazzar, and the High Priest had ordered her to he condemned to death. Belshazzar madly adored the Princess Beloved, by whose pale beauty he was stricken. The Mountain Girl worshipped him from afar. Cyrus, the Persian conqueror of the world, attacks Babylon at the clow of the first act. While the Princess Beloved prays for Belshazzar in the temples the Mountain Girl fights for him on the walls. Belshazzar wins, and vanquishes the armies of Cyrus. In the last act is shown the feast of Belshazzar. in celebration of his victory over Cyrus. They give honor to Islitar for victory. Enraged at this the High Priest mans the gates with his chosen guards, bribes many of the King's guards and goes to the tents of Cyrus with a proposition to open the gates for the entrance of his (Cyrus's) army in the night into Babylon. Through the youthful Rhapsode, madly in love with the Mountain Girl, the latter hears of the priest's Visit to Cyrus, and follows them in her chariot. She sees Cyrus and his army start on tl eir march, and dashes ahead in an attempt to warn Belshazzar of his danger. Though the girl is delayed on the way, she dashes into the bnnquet hall in time to warn Belshazzar, but too late to save him. Belshazzar, with only a few guards fights to the last at the gates of his palace, while the Princess Beloved prays to Islitar.

The picture is to be shown again tonight and this afternoon at a special matinee.

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Taranaki Daily News, 26 October 1917, Page 6

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"INTOLERANCE." Taranaki Daily News, 26 October 1917, Page 6

"INTOLERANCE." Taranaki Daily News, 26 October 1917, Page 6

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