COMING NEW SERIAL.

Hokitika Guardian, 8 June 1923, Page 2

COMING NEW SERIAL.

No Effort Spared to Make Historical Movie Realistic. Every history and text book in the Los Angeles and Hollywood libraries was scanned diligently during the preparation of the continuities for “With Stanley in Africa,” the Universal diopter play which comes to the Princess Theatre on Wednesday, and which records in accurate detail the trying hardships and misfortunes of the historical explorations which took so many brilliant men into the wilds and mysteries of the Dark Continent in IS7I. But skilfully interwoven with the ac(s of history is the always necessary thread of love and romance.

Though the famous expedition followed close on the heels of the reconstruction period of the Civil Mar and much valuable detail was lost to history because it was overshadowed by this epochal event, no effort and expense have been spared to gain all the facts of the expedition. It is interesting to note that while Henry M. Stanley and Dr-David Livingstone were the names historians remembered. James Gordon Bennett, who was in 1871 editor of the New York Herald, was responsible for the famous expedition. Bennett originated the idea and furnished the money for the expedition, and but for him the entire exploration heralded so sensationally by historians might never have l>een. At the time of the expedition Bennett was one of the best known newspaper men of America. Under the direction of Edward Kull a east of exceptional merit was chosen to portray tho various roles ol this vital serial. George Walsh, the featured plover, in addition to his histrionic ability, is an athlete of great skill and performs some wonderfully clever stunts and tricks. Walsh is ably supported by tlm winsomely attractive Louise Lorraine. Additional members of the cast include such favourites as Charles Mason. William Welsh and Gordon Sackvino. . , , Every inch of Die thirty-six rods of fascinating history and romance ,ias been directed with the strictest, attrition to detail, with tho result that Universal is offering one of Die best historical serials ever recorded by a motion picture camera. George 11. Plympton wrote the story mid continuity from history.

All school children will he admitted free for the opening chapters of this Historical and Educational serial.