Lillian Gish in Annie Laurie – Lola Todd (1927)

Lillian Gish in Annie Laurie – Lola Todd (1927)

Madera Tribune, Volume XLI, Number 38, 16 December 1927

LILLIAN GISH IN ANNIE LAURIE

Lola Todd

Annie Laurie beloved in song and romance through the centuries whose name is one to call up visions of the romantic highlands and the delicate sentiment of Robert Burns and the ancient bards Annie Laurie has come to life again. She held big audiences enthralled with her charm, and the charm of the romantic land of her birth; the mighty romance of Scotland, last night at the National theatre, when “Annie Laurie,” Lillian Gish’s new’ vehicle, was shown and will again he shown tonight.
ANNIE LAURIE, Norman Kerry, Lillian Gish, 1927
Lillian Gish literally is Annie Laurie. Those who imagined her as a myth or legend will be amazed at the actual woman;  Miss Gish is a faithful portrayer of the real Annie Laurie, who lived centuries ago whose love and whose heroism turned the tide of Scottish history in a real life drama more powerful than any imagined by a scenarist; and whose romance has come down to the world in song of the ancient bard. “Annie Laurie” is a tremendous drama of history. It deals with the gigantic ferment and struggle in Scotland that culminated in the Glencoe Massacre.
ANNIE LAURIE, Norman Kerry (links), Lillian Gish (Mitte), Direktor John S. Robertson, am Set, 1927
It is all laid on actual fact. Miss Gish, as the historic daughter of Sir Robert Laurie, chief of Clan Campbell, approaches the genius of Bernhardt, but always coupled with her own ethereal charm, in the mighty drama, in which she enacts the Scottish Joan of Arc. Norman Kerry plays the hero as a chieftain of the enemy clan of MacDonald. The great battle scenes, with hordes of six foot wanders in tartans and plaids, battling with shield and claymore—the majesty of the ancient Scotch castles these all add glamor. But the charm of Lillian Gish pervades it all.
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