OTAKI THEATRE.

Otaki Mail, 1 November 1922, Page 2

OTAKI THEATRE.

TO-NIGHT. , •' THE FOUR- HORSEMEN OF THE APOCALYPSE.” The long-waited Rex Ingram production of “The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse” will be shown to-night. This is the picture that cost Metro $1,000,000 to make, and, from all acj counts the $1,000,000 was well spent, as ( critics agree that all other efforts at j production on a grand scale have been I surpassed and record runs have been made in New York. Chicago, Boston, Pittsburgh. Detroit, Los Angeles and ! other cities where the picture has been j previously shown. Fifty principals and I 2.500 extras were engaged in the filming of tiio photodrama, an entire French I village and an elaborate chateau were j erected to be destroyed under artillery | bombardment. The appeal of the i story itself has already been proved j through the success of the novel by '• Vicente Blasco Ibanez, upon which the

pliotodratna is founded. Mobilization of the biggest army ever organized for motion picture purposes took place in Hollywood, Cal., for “The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. This army differed from others that have been used in mimic battles for the screen in lhat every officer and private enlisted in it saw service abroad. “We were enabled to put on a more authentic reproduction of the second battle of the Marne than ever before has'been attempted in bottle pictures,” said Director Ingram. “Some of the men participated in the battle that proved the turning point of the war. ” June Mathis, who prepare! the picture version of Ibanez’s sensational book, made repeated visits to the Metro ranch outside of Los Angeles, where a French village was reproduced as a background for the battle scenes.