Title
'Les Miserables' at the Centre [advertisement]
Date
1927
Description
An advertisement for showings of Les Miserables at the Centre note that the Centre Orchestra will be playing "Special Music" and Wagner's "Tannajuser" overture.
Inscription: Centre | Never Such Drama | Now Playing | No Advance in Prices | Matinees, 15c and 25c | Evenings, 25c and 40c | Evening Prices Prevail Thanksgiving Afternoon | Special Music by the Famous Centre Orchestra | Overture - "Tannajuser" by Wagner
All the World is Waiting For It! | Carl Laemmle presents | Victor Hugo's Immortal Successor to The Hunchback of Notre Dame! | Les Miserables | A Universal Film de France Triumph
The Greatest Drama of all Time ! | Romance! - Revolution! - Love that counts no costs! - Romance as sweet as any story ever told! - All in the spectacular picture that all the world has been waiting for! - France's own production of the tempestuous story of gay glittering Paris in the rumour of revolution! - The greatest human drama literature has known!
You Don't Know --- | what drama is until you have seen Jean Valjean's heroic rise from disgrace to untold glory - the torn heart of Cosette - the thrilling rescue of Javert - the desperate fighting, horror, and turmoil of the French Revolution! It's masterful-gigantic!
Conceived by the magnificent imagination of Victor Hugo, the Master, this great and moving story of humanity oppressed and triumphant marks one of the screen's most colossal achievements. Laid in France at the time the nation was awakening from its nightmare of horror, you will be terrified and amazed at the gripping realism with which this superb all-French cast portrays the characters of this immortal literary epic. | Truly An Immortal Film Masterpiece!
All the World is Waiting For It! | Carl Laemmle presents | Victor Hugo's Immortal Successor to The Hunchback of Notre Dame! | Les Miserables | A Universal Film de France Triumph
The Greatest Drama of all Time ! | Romance! - Revolution! - Love that counts no costs! - Romance as sweet as any story ever told! - All in the spectacular picture that all the world has been waiting for! - France's own production of the tempestuous story of gay glittering Paris in the rumour of revolution! - The greatest human drama literature has known!
You Don't Know --- | what drama is until you have seen Jean Valjean's heroic rise from disgrace to untold glory - the torn heart of Cosette - the thrilling rescue of Javert - the desperate fighting, horror, and turmoil of the French Revolution! It's masterful-gigantic!
Conceived by the magnificent imagination of Victor Hugo, the Master, this great and moving story of humanity oppressed and triumphant marks one of the screen's most colossal achievements. Laid in France at the time the nation was awakening from its nightmare of horror, you will be terrified and amazed at the gripping realism with which this superb all-French cast portrays the characters of this immortal literary epic. | Truly An Immortal Film Masterpiece!
Source
Centre advertisement. Ottawa Journal. November 7 1927: 7.
Microfilm from Ottawa Public Library