LYRIC PICTURES
"THE QUEEN OF SHBBA." TO-NIGHT. The big surprise in •'Queen of sheba" playing at the Lyric Pictures •■■ n : ght. is the chariot lace. It is so exciting tbut hundreds oi' people have asked how it wus made. J. Gonion j tldv.aids. who directed the filming of j the story for William Fox, uifswers the question u i follows.—" There is no secret about it. I'ou can't keep a motion picture set containing y,i)UO people and covering 15D a.-res a secret. We I simply built the arena, put on trie races and photographed them from every angle we could think of. Two of the chariots overturned, giving -Jim Murphy, a driver, the narrowest escape of his career. Tom Mix. the cowboy star, did some thrilling riding for its by way of what he called 'whooping it' up' and Betty Blyth and Nell Craig, driving a chariot apiece, proved tuut iliov were u- .-.killed and as daring horsewomen as ever I'd seen in my life. WEDNESDAY NEXT "FLESH AND BLOOD" The screech oi the siren announcing ; the escape of a convict is the first flash in the First National dramn "Flesh and Blood" screening at the Lyric Picures. next Wednesday. Edith Roberts plays the beautiful daughter of the escaped cenviet. and for her sake he eventually abandons ,a long planned scheme of vengeance. The story is most ingenious and interesting, and is very ably acted by a tine ca-t.
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Otaki Mail, 9 July 1923, Page 3
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