The Moving picture world (January 1924-February 1924)

^NATIONAL MAGAZINES CHICAGO NEW YORK One of the most notewortny adventures ever made 1 in cinema production. ... Its photograph* I excellence and beauty of landscape views P<»sibly f never has been surpassed in the cinema. A grand ^achievement. ^ ^.^ Mortin anil (5he^@Iobe "The White Sister" is not a movie; it is a work of ,rt a genuine artistic triumph . . • a comple'te and satisfying masterpiece of the screen A most palpable treat .... Lillian GishpS performance is universal in its interest .. . . rient> I of romance, beauty, and P'7rial.(ct;armnt;res;ine Scenic effects are exceedingly beautiful. Interesting and well worth seeing. _Loaetla o. Par.on. Don't miss it. . . . Never has a simple tale oi love and despair been told with greater beauty, sincerity or truth. Every picture is a painting. Lillian returns to the screen with a charming impersonation. ffbe ®ilif|S World. 'The White Sister" contains much genuinely moving and thrilling drama. A big and a fine picture that deserves to rank with the best the movies have yet produced. It is fine entertainment. You ought to see it. — Don Allen Sty* Jfetor Jfxrrk Sime*. The players actually appear to live the parts they enact on the screen. ... Miss Gish obtains the full effect in every situation. . . . One of the strongest love stories that has ever been filmed. —F W. Mordaunt Hall THE NEW YORK HERALD Remark. . Tht •Miss Gish is always exquisite. . . . able qualities and emotional repression. . exterior scenes are beautitul. . , , It is , so .superbly played bv Lillian Gish and by Ronald Colman, and so perfectly directed by Henry King that one is entitled to assume that here is an unquestionable candidate for the Hall of Film Fame. —Robert E. Sherwood I Theatre Magazine Lillian Gish's work is extraordinary. It has something of the ardent yet ethereal quality of Eleanora lOuse. If you miss it, you will lose one of the ar; [ cistic triumphs of the screen. JdOVIE WEEKDf 'The White Sister" is a film which justifies motion pictures . . . highly artistic . . the scenes are exquisite. Miss Gish enacts one of the beautifully memorable roles of screen history. The eruption of Mount Vesuvius and the subsequent breaking of a reservoir are thrilling. By all means see "The White Sister." It is excellent entertainment. L i— f e Lillian Gish gives a performance that is divinely ' exalted. She possesses greater emotional force in her i left eyebrow than all the fake thrills that the silent ' drama has perfected. —Robert E. Sherwood JUDGE A picture of great photographic beauty. . . . Worth seeing alone for the grandeur of its natural settings. ... A masterpiece of beauty. . . . The action is tense and the actors more than competent. The production is dignified and an ornament to the screen. Lillian Gish is all alone in her class. MILWAUKEE Lillian Gish better than in anything she has ever done. From any standpoint it is h'ndid. MAKE AM rUIC A \FE. FOR. UtMOCKACY' HERALDif^EXAMlNER Miss Gish gives the most gorgeous performance ol her career. . "The White Sister" will hold your attention throughout. THE CHICAGO DAILY JOURNAL 1 Ife gw>S ofcLillian Gish makes a great film of ,' The Wh.te Stster." There is something lingeringly lovely about the picture. One of the year's important offerings. . . . h should stand' near . the top of the list. i — Virginia Dale The Chicago Evening Post | Lillian Gish has made this tragedy into a story' jvnicli will grip you and hold your interest I ^Director Henry King has achieved a very unusual] '•production and one which is intensely dramatic. Wt^&o J§y&u Jriktic. One of the most exquisite photoplays ever screened. ' ■ • • ihe power, the beauty, the realism, the pathos of it must strike home. . . . Lillian Uish is lovely throughout ... her acting is excellent. . . . Ronald Colman as her lover is ( 'immense. ... The atmosphere is all should be. — Mae Tinmti CHICAGO: w, AMERICAN '^TkeJW'?'te S'Ster" achieves a P'ace by 'tself. Mis' Uisn displays a surer, more mature, more compelling almost, it would seem, a perfect art you realize you are viewing one of the screen's greatest. Locations are of great beauty. Henry King's direction and adaption are worthy of great praise -Rob Ree DAIlJY^p NEWS Phis is a picture that no one can afford to miss. , ) 1 he entire production is marvelous. . . . Heartrending for its exquisiteness and pathos of portrayal. 1 — Irene One of the very best productions ever made. Overflows with Italian beauty. . . . Entire ca-t play their parts with profound sincerity. . . . Fo dramatic suspense, let one commend the scene in the observatory on the brow of muttering Vesuvius. t *l.ss Gish does some of the best acting she has ever [ I" a Lillian Gishp/rformr/ '° *~* P"<™°< -Harriette Underhill The Evening Telegram cult THE EVENING MAILi Miss Lillian Gish as "The White Sister" is all love ._ liness and appeal. . . . The picture has not! here her role is most dim vet Deen equai|ej far scenic beauty, herself so well thai -Robert C. Welch In "The White Sister Lillian Gish acquitted that she is an exceptional emo lh„e is no denying that .he, an ex cept^aiei^ ZealonCr;cre;n. ^photography is beautiful.