AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 11 May 1925, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

EVERYBODYS PICTURES. • A SOX OF THE SAHARA.” —T< LXIGIIT. One oh the most ambitious motion picture ventures ever undertaken endec! recently when, tiller live months pent in Algeria and France, Director l it!\*. in Carewe and his company of •American players returned with the completed litm of “ A Son of tiie Sahara,” w iiieii will Jie the First National offering at: the Princess Theatre tonit'ht. .’di- Carewc’s east consisted of Pei l I.vtell, (.'laire Windsor, Rosemary Techy, Walter .MrGraill, Montagu Dove and Paul Panzer, all of whom are now hack i:i the Failed States. The company spent the majority of its time in Riskra. on the edge of the Sahara, where the exterior scenes were lilined in the actual locale of Louise Demid's story. With, the co-operation of the Fremli and native authorities many dosort si’cncs %vtrre 'obtained, Avliic-li. it is expected, will exceed m realism anythin" of tie hind ever before screened. In some of the bigger scenes thousands of native Arabs were massed before the

.etcii"Tii. One uT ilic thrills i)i tip- picture will In- tlio storming ol u I*'re ll < li outpost. defended liv .‘'mlnncse troops, by a horde of desert Arabs, During the filming of another scene, showing ■an ancient slave market, an entire Algerian town was turned over to the Aihi 1 :ic;iit director and the entire popuilation lent ntniospliere to the picturesque seene. Following the Algerian so-

(|Uences, lavish interiors were lilined at the Eclair studio at Paris. i! li the

completion ol these scenes the company returned to America conlident in the heliet that they had helped to give the M-reeit one of the most ittlere-tin." ofI’eriiiis to date. “A Son o! the Sahara” iis the funrth ol a series of Kdwin Carewi' Product ions lor hirst National.

.m jiitcri'.-lill!' 11:l>i< :'I and n LTc.mi (olnrilv will : > Iso In' .shown tn.Miss Williams’ m-hostra will plitv ;i sell-fled )in rn in mo nml usual pricos will bo churned.