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Photoplay Magazine
painting of the time of Christ.
The Chaldean visions will teach history to college professors.
Altogether, the accuracy and authority of '•intolerance's*' historic information is stupendous.
The finest individual acting accomplishments are Mae Marsh's. The unique figure is Constance Talmadge, as The Mountain Girl : the most poignantly beautiful, Seena Owen, as Attarea, favorite of Belshazzar. But there are no male assumptions even approaching the chief portrayals in "The Birth of a Nation."
Mr. Bitzer's photography, devoid of anything sensational, flows like the transparent, limpid style of a finished writer. It is without tricks, and without imperfections.
An attempt to assimilate the mountainous lore of this sun-play at a sitting results in positive mental exhaustion. The universally-heard comment from the highbrow or nobrow who has tried to get it all in an evening: "I am so tired !"
Profoundest of symbols is the Rocking Cradle — "uniter of here and hereafter" — which joins the episodes. This mysterious ark of life, the stuff of a dream in the dimness of its great shadowed room, almost belongs to infinity. Lillian Gish is the brooding mother.
The music is sadly inefficient — the most inefficient music a big picture ever had.
Thousands upon thousands of feet of this photoplay never will be seen by the public. In the taking, this story rambled in every direction, and D. W. ('.. relentlessly and recklessly pursued each ramble to its end. At least half a dozen complete minor stories were
Of Intolerance : i reading doien\ Seena Owen as Attarea, Miriam Cooper as The Friendless One. Frank Bennett as Charles IX.
cut off before the picture was shown at all.
In all probability, ••Intolerance'will never attain the popularity of ••The Birth of a Xation." It has not that drama's single, sweeping story. It appeals more to the head, less to the heart.
Babylon is the foundationstone, and seems to have been the original inspiration, of this visual Babel. Its mighty walls, its crowds, its armv. have won many long-drawn "Ahs !" of sky-rocket admiration. But these were not essentially Griffith — a n y o n e with money can pile up mobs and scenery. Mr. Griffith's original talent appears in recreating the passions, the ambitions, the veritable daily life of a great people so remote that their every monument is dust, their every artwork lost, their very language forgotten. This is more than talent : it is genius.
You were taught that the Jewish Jehovah traced destruction's warning in letters of lire on the wall of Belshazzar's palace: and that Cyrus, to get in. drained the Euphrates river and walked on its bed under Babylon's See this picture and Babylon was peacefully betrayed by the priests of Marduk long after it had successfully withstood as frenzied asiege as the Persian conqueror could bring.
Xot content with rearing the vast barriers and marvellous gates you have seen illustratively reproduced in these pages, the California necromancer showed life as it ran its slender course among the poor more than twenty-five centuries ago. Always of this undercurrent is The Mountain Girl, a wild, wonderful little creature, to be followed from
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