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“BEN-KUR” “Ben-Hur,” the motion-picture masterpiece, which has been shown in every country of the world, is now in its last week at the Grand Theatre. The story of “Ben-Hur” is still thrilling audiences. Scorning the proud Jewishness of Judah, and seeing the opportunity to degrade a proud subject and attain his possession, Messala puts the guilt on the Jew of his accidentally dislodging a tile that falls and hits the Procurator Gratus, while entering the city. Ben-Hur is arrested and sent to penal servitude in the galleys. His mother and sister, Tirzali, are likewise arrested and hurried away to a dungeon. Arrius, commander of the Roman fleet assembled against the pirates, is lenient to the handsome young prisoner from Judea, whose story wins from him a certain degree of sympathy. Despite the custom of chaining up all the galley slaves before going into action, he orders the shackles to be removed from the leg of BenHur. Therefore the Jew does not share the fate of the other rowers, doomed by their chains. The young man springs above deck and defends his benefactor after the pirates have succeeded in boarding the trireme.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 331, 17 April 1928, Page 15
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