“Orphans of the Storm” – Chicago Tribune (1922) Chicago Tribune – Monday February 6, 1922 – Page 4 Have You Ever Read Anything Like This? “Orphans of the Storm” is the greatest dramatic enactment the world has ever known since the living contests in the Roman amphitheater.” – Says Amy Leslie. “It is Griffith’s largest achievement – a play of plaintive beauty set like a pearl with the volcanoes of the earth’s heart torn open. The refreshing youth of the Gish girls and Shildkraut come nearer the great truth of drama than celebrities of another era. Its beauty is a continual feast, and its amassment of armies, mobs and gigantic maneuvers plunge into imagination with drawn swords of conviction and verity.” Amy Leslie, News. “It equals ‘The Birth of a Nation.’ Work of this sort causes some of us who we are, perhaps, too prone to turn up our noses at this eight art to pause and reflect. The mad gallop equals in every particular the ride of the Klansmen in the ‘Birth of a Nation,’ and, ...
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