The evening world. Newspaper, February 20, 1922, Page 17

THE Sy sesee WORLD, — faze Sse 20, AMUSEMENTS. AMUSEMENTS. When the People Reach Out, NE single play has been seen by fifty millions of That play was the TWO OR- PHANS, played in every country in the world but Siam. Americans. 4 hundred ‘million Americans need to see the story of a still greater play of real life, called “THE FRENCH REVOLUTION. In looking back at that play of history, a tragedy of passion in which Kings were vic- * tims and men from the gutter their exccutioners, the intelli- |gent man is warned and understands the events of to-day. , Beware of the people when it reaches out to grab what it hates. And let the people beware of ITSELF in that moment of hatred, triumph, intoxication and inevitable disaster. When a nation is plunged into revolution, into a sea of blood, heads of men and women from the upper class fall by the thousands. Then leaders of the revolution themselves fall, THEIR necks pass under the guillotine blade. Danton, giant in power, went first, then Robespierre, Car- ’s “green-eyed monster,” dragged to the guillotine with jaw Then Ivle’s broken, blood running from his mouth, but defiant. Marat rose to rule, and Charlotte Corday killed him. Then came Napoleon, seizing the people by the throat as they, the people, had seized fat, foolish King Louis. Napoleon marched them all over Europe to be shot on a hundred battle- fields, or frozen in the snows of Russia. His day came, and he went to die on his lonely island, in intense physical and mental agony. See D. W. Griffith’s “Orphans of the Storm” AMUSEMENTS. AMUSEMENTS. AMUSEMENTS, 1923, AMUSEMENTS, 7 AMUSEMENTS, RSL Ad Luk Se BEWARE! ee <u \ ‘i 32 King Louis XVI. of France Learned It Too Late. FROM REVOLUTION, BLOODSHED AND Ty- RANNY ONLY SORROW CAN COME. In his extraordinary picture production of the Two Or- phans, which he calls “ORPHANS OF THE STORM,” David W. Griffith makes YOU LIVE for two and a half.hours in that horrible storm of blood, hatred and rebellion. The arrogant nobles, yesterday feasting, careless debauches, to-day are hunt- ed like rats. The people are transformed into a howling mob, the King and his wife are beheaded. Then the hour glass turns, and the people again are under the heel of power from above. If an intelligent man could see himself drunk or angry, he would never be angry or drunk again. And _ intelligent people, seeing real revolution, living, hating and killing, as Mr. Griffith shows it in his marvelous picture of “ORPHANS OF THE STORM,” would hate the suggestion of revolution even more intensely than they could hate tyranny or selfish exploi- tation. For when a whole people go mad, there is wisdom and safety nowhere. “The Orphan Girl Kneeling Before the Tribunal of Bloody Justice That Knew’ No Justice.” Copyright, 1022, New York American Reprinted by Permission APOLLO THEATRE 42nd Street, West of Broadway The beautiful, pathetic picture of the Two Orphans, the blind girl and her sister, separated and plunged into the hor- rible maelstrom of the French Revolution, the absolute living portrayal of that revolution with its great figures and horrible brutality, stamps upon the mind that which will never be for- gotten by intelligent Americans. The horrible selfishness of the privileged classes, living tax free on misery below them, feasting, squandering, debauched and shameless at a time when there were thirty thousand professional beggars in Paris, and when the nobleman might see at the gate of his castle peasants lying dead, with grass that they had tried to eat stick: ing from their mouths—that is the picture of governing power © gone mad. And the Griffith picture portrays it as no words could do. a e@ @ With this wild setting of revolution for a background, the romance and story of the Two Orphans, tale of girlish beauty. devotion and pathos mixed in the stream of hatred, horror and cruelty, stands out with power that words cannot possibly! describe. To see this Griffith play of the Two Orphans, or “ORPHANS OF THE STORM,” as he has chosen to call his finest production, is a duty, an education, and, in addition, it provides hours of most intense interest, excitement and delight. The ablest actors and actresses, unlimited spending of money on a scale hitherto unthought of, plus the knowledge and genius of Griffith, the greatest picture-maker in the world, have produced this picture-story of the Two Orphans, “ORPHANS OF THE STORM.” And you are urged to see it while it is still in New York. Where it,is shown at prices ell vidi the redch of all, ~ FF ety ee carte Seg ipiiatensss ormmraine mamaenscennsemnenay a 2