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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 34, 3 May 1927, Page 15

A section of the South American desert was reproduced by transplanting imported South American plants and vegetation in the Mojave Desert for “The Temptress.” This is one of the most elaborate feats in landscape gardening ever attempted. The story is a romance of South America, with Greta Garbo, Antonio Moreno and a cast that includes Lionel Barrymore, Roy D’Arcy and other noted players:

Because he considered “Mare Nostrum” to be his greatest novel, Blasco Ibanez refused to dispose of the motion picture rights until Rex Ingram was able to produce it. Ingram and Ibanez have been close friends ever since they worked together in producing “The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse,” the wonder picture of a few years ago. Photographed hi Europe in the authentic scenes of the story, “Mare Nostrum” is yet another Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer triumph. Alice Terry, in the leading feminine role, was never more beautiful, and Antonio Moreno in the role of the leading man gives a very forceful characterisation. These two stars are supifcjited by a cast >f leading Continental players, who are most convincing in their parts. Th«* story of “Mare Nostrum” concerns the experience of Talberg, a beautiful Austrian spy, and Ulysses Ferryagut. the lust of a famous Spanish family of seafarers. Four leading women in one picture! Imagine the tact arid diplomacy with which the director c f such a picture must be equipped. But John G. Adolfi, dirctor of “Chalk Marks. a P.D.C. production shortly to be released by First National. has both these admirable qualities in abundance, so all four of che leading ladies were kept happy and satisfied. Making up the quartet of heroines iu “Chalk Marks’ are Marguerite Snow, June Elvidge, Helen Ferguson and Priscilla Bonner. Antonio Moreno, who plays opposite Alice Terry in “Mare Nostrum, and who played opposite Marion Davies in “Beverly or Graustark,” plays hero to Greta Garbo, famous Swedish screen beautv, in her new picture, “The Temptress,” filmed from the South American story by Vicente Blasco Ibanez The cast includes such notables are Lionel Barrymore, Kor D’Arcv, Virginia Brown Faire, and other celebrities of the screen. Sam Hardy wants to know whether he should feel insulted. \\ hen lie arrived from New York to play the ro e of a loudly-dressed imposter in r«l----leen Moore's new First National picture. “Orchids and Ermine,” he tried on the wardrobe that had been up espcially fyr the character.