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“BEN-HUR” Every section of society will find in "Ben-Hur” an equal appeal. In the throngs that have flocked to see it in England, America, and throughout the Continent, royalty has mingled with commoner; leaders of the world’s famous churchmen, men and women of high intellectual distinction—all have marvelled at “Ben-Hur.” As a motion picture, General Lew Wallace’s novel and its remarkable descriptions, have been given the dimensions of life and reality. A lost age is recreated with a fidelity that seems incredible, and would be but for the evidence of countless legions of warriors, the swarming hordes eddying around historic shrines, the mute appeal of the architectural majesty of Rome, Jerusalem, Antioch and the inspiring sweep of war-vessels across the blue Mediterranean,
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 326, 11 April 1928, Page 15
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123GRAND Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 326, 11 April 1928, Page 15
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