MONTE CRISTO.

Otaki Mail, 2 November 1923, Page 3

MONTE CRISTO.

LYRIC PICTURES NEXT MONDAY. The Cast. Edmund Dantes, Count of Monte Cristo John Gilbcr Mercedes Estelle Taylor Cadoroussc AA’illiatn A’. Mong do A'illefor Robert MclCim Fernand Ralph Cloninger Abbe Faria .... Spottiswoodc Aitkon Luigi Vampa George Scigmann Danglui's Albert Prisco Haidee Virginia Fairc Albert Gaston Glass Morrel A 1 Filson Elder Dantes Harry Lonsdale Benedetto Francis McDonald Governor of Chateau D’lf Jack Cosgrove It is generally conceded that 1 lio motion picture has not reached, to any degree of permanency, quite a number of persons in New Zealand. Just vvhy it has not is more or less of a mystery. Those few' which the screen hits not reached are numbered among the older folks who still doubt that motion pictures ean portray it story in an interesting manner. (However, these' doubting Thomases will have a nowjoy in witnessing the remarkable drama adapted from the famous story, "Monte Cristo,” written by the immortal Alexandre Dumas. It is to have its local premiere at the Lyric pictures next Monday. It was produced by AA’illiam Fox under the direction of Emmett J. Flynn. This story, which has been read by millions and which will ever remain as a classic of adventure, love, and romance, provides an

excellent, theme for o screen drama. It is possible through the scope of the motion picture camera to carry the audience to France, the locale of the story, and there depict ill a faithful way the stirring adventures of the youth first known as Edmond Dantes. Few. if any of the older generation, who have read at all. have, never read this story. For this reason many who seldom go to the motion picture theatre, will do so when this great Foxspecial opens here. This has proved picture has already been sliovrn. rhe to be tile case in other cities where the local management states that "Monte Cristo” is without an equal as a screen drama.