“FOUR HORSEMEN” COMING TO SHANNON.

Shannon News, 17 October 1922, Page 2

“FOUR HORSEMEN” COMING TO SHANNON.

“The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse” will be screeed in Shannon on Friday. Indications of the screen’s power have been given in memorable productions of other years, but iot until “The Four Horsemen” has there .been a photodrama, that has so completely filled the promise' of epical achievement. The director, Rex Ingrain, a sculptor before he entered the motion picture field, lias brought to the screen sense of composition and form that is infallible in getting tbenight result down to the smallest detail. And then there are the big settings—the broad sweep of the Argentine plains with their enormous herds of cattle, the Buenos Aires dance hall with its swirl of smoke and glamorous vice, the whirling gaiety of the Parisian tango palace, the fevered rush of the mobilisation scenes at the outbreak of the war, the cl; tiered retreat of the refugees, the seemingly endless masses of German troops pouring towards Paris, the bombardment and destruction of a village and a chateau on the ( Marne, the terrific horror and fascination cf an infantry attack, from the trenches, into No Man’s Land. And through it all is the uncanny vision of St. John, picturing the Four Horsemen—Conquest, War, Famine and Death. The highest honours are carried off by Rudolph Valentino, a young Italian who won fame as an exhibition dancer before starting his screen career. Alice Terry, one of the more delicately beautiful women on the screen, is seen as Marguerite, the love-sick wife. Although only a few years out of high school, she plays witfh a mature deftness.