MODERN ARABIAN KNIGHTS
Cinema Art Films expects to receive within the next few months the first copy of the big U.F.A. spectacle, “The Secrets of the Orient,” a story of the "Arabian Knights,” produced under the personal supervision of Mr. Alexander Wolkoff who made "Michael Strogoff" and "The Prince of Adventurers.” "Secrets of the Orient" has been over a year in the making and it is anticipated that it will be the outstanding picture of the coming season. More than 3,000 extras were employed continuously for several weeks, and in the desert scenes, taken actually in the Sahara 500 camels and 500 full-blooded Arabian horses and several hundreds of real Bedouins were used.
The first of the Paramount Christie comedies to be synchronised for sound is titled "The Dizzy Diver.” Billy Dooley is starred. All the Christie comedies appearing on Paramount's "Whole Show” programme will be sound synchronised "with music, dialogue or other effects.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 479, 8 October 1928, Page 15
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