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“THE WHEEL OF LIFE” The flickering light from a tall, sacerdotal urn in which blazes a wick in butter-fat illuminates one of the strikingly beautiful love scenes in Richard Dix’s new picture, “The Wheel of Life,” which is now at the Roxy Theatre. The scene is between Dix, tlie star, and Ksther Ralston, his leading woman. It takes place in a monastery of tlie lamas or Buddhist hign priests, high in the lofty Himalaya mountains, where Dix, as a British soldier, has gone to the rescue of a party of beleaguered British travellers. Considerable research was done by Paramount to furnish this mysterious monastery of an ancient religion in authentic manner. Major Fairbanks Smith, who served 14 years with the British Army in India and the Himalaya region, served as technical director for the production. He has a profound knowledge of the customs of the lajpaas. who are virtual overlords of a Turko- Mongol race of about 2,000,000 people. The Tibetan region is little known to explorers. It was only in the beginning of the 19th century that travellers began to penetrate this forbidding wilderness.
The Roxy programme, which is shown continuously. also includes several new short talkie items.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 821, 15 November 1929, Page 16
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