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starsweeper commented about Colonial Theatre on Jan 14, 2008 at 4:04 pm

According to her journals, Lucy Maud Montgomery (of Anne of Green Gables fame) saw D.W. Griffith’s ‘The Fall of Babylon’ starring Constance Talmadge at the Colonial on Thursday, July 10, 1919. She went with her sister-in-law Flora Eagles which whom she was staying in Braintree. She even kept the ticket stub in her scrapbook.

Here is her summary of the event: “Flora and I went into Boston this afternoon to see the much advertised ‘The Fall of Babylon.’ Like the curate’s hackneyed egg it was very good in spots. The siege of Babylon was wonderful. But the heroine, the so-called ‘mountain maid’ was nothing but a very sophisticated chorus girl and there was never for a moment a illusion of anything else.”