Salt Lake Telegram | 1919-11-08 | Page 11 | Gem Theatre Offers Griffith's New Masterpiece

i Gem Theatre I Offers Griffiths Griffith's New Masterpiece I D. D W. W Griffith has produced a thing of rare and haunting charm In his Broken Blossoms which tonight opens its second weeks week's engagement at the Gem theatre First because of ot the delicacy and andI j I directness with which the pathetic hors horI hor- hor s I exquisite story has been ad adapted for forthe I Ithe the screen second for tor the acting of or Lili LH- LH i j lan Uan Gish and Richard Barthelmus third i for the photography which has caught a aj j i beautiful effect throughout the whole I piece f r The The picture has been taken from The Chink and the Child the first of ot the I Limehouse Nights stories by Thomas Thoms I Burke Its scenes are arc laid in the dim lilt lit alleys of the London Chinatown t l. l I where the girl Lucia twelve years old I I having haling been beaten almost t to o death by l r I father the prize fighter tighter Battling Burrows Burrows Burrows Bur Bur- rows Is 15 taken in and cared for tor by fey Cheng Haun a young oung Chinaman Cheng has watched her sufferings silently for a long time His little room oyer his shop he I fits up with silks and satins in honor of ot her coming For three days he nurses her there back to health tending her as his I princess Then the prize-fighting prize father tather rots ets wind of where the child has reared and the tragedy follows quickly Not Sot however before some bits of ot almost I lyric loveliness had penetrated through the sordid atmo atmosphere here of ot tho rho tal tale Miss Gish as the girl timId girl timid forlorn I a fantastic little creature creature contributed contributed I j much to these hese as did Mr Barthelmess I iwho who as the young oung Chinaman maintained I well the impression of ot intensity and reI restraint re- re 1 I behind the tho Impassive mask of ot the I oriental