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ENTERTAINMENTS.

EVERYBODY’S. “THE FOUR HORSEMEN.” “The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse,” which opened a short season to a packed house at Everybody’s last night, is in every way a remarkable picture production. The film, for the imaginative application of the prophecies contained in the Revelations of St. John, to the Great War, considerably improve* upon the remarkable conception of the -Spanish novelist and playwright Vicente Blasco Ibanez. The author chooses for the opening of the story the country most remotely stirred by the world war, Argentina. Malariaga, a -centuar-stockman, seizes and holds the earlier and stormier days of the great -southern republic, leagues of “campo,” and is in middle age, much beyonu desire, and the lord of the destinies of the countryside. He is a fierce and ruthless pleasure-loving Latin, symbolic of the lusts of the flesh. .His two daughters wed a Frenchman and a German. The German’s three spectacled sons are reared as Huns, with warrior and kultur instincts, while the Frenchman’s son Julio, and daughter Chichi, are brought up Argentines. Vivid and candid pictures of Argentine life of a few years ago are given. The old man dies on horseback and his will equally dividing his millions, the families seek the Old "World, the German branch Berlin and the French Paris. Each branch progresses according to it* instincts, the German materialistically and .the French in the pursuit of art- and antique treasures, which the father collects in a massive chateau on the Marne. Then come* the first hot breath of war, not on lEarth, but in Hell, where all wars breed. The Beast of Brass snorts amidst the glowing, unchanging caverns of Hell, tenanted by the restless, tortured multitudes of the damned, and from the innermost recesses of the white hot inferno ride the four horsemen. Conquest, War, Pestilence, and Death, each more fearsome and repel-lant than his predecessor, subtly, horribly symbolised. As a war picture, “The Four Horsemen’' is remarkable. The destruction of the chateau, and the turning of the tide at the Marne, are presented with grim detvil, the visions of St. John as seen by Julio from the description of the mysterious Stranger who occupies the attic, a Man of Sorrows, are marvels of the producers’ art. The film closes with the Stranger sympathising, in the midst of a limitless cemetery of wooden crosses, with the bereaved parents. To “Did. you know him?’ he replies, “I know them all.” The story is richly allegorical, powerful in its contrasts, deft in its handling of the small details which make a stupendously complete damnation of war. The picture screens again at a special matinee this afternoon’ at 3.30 and tonight at 7.45. Intending patrons to the evening screening would be 'well advised to reserve without delay at Collier’s.

THE PEOPLE’S. “KINDRED OF THE DUST.” A gripping drama, produced by a master hand and enacted by a cast, the strength of which could not have been improved upon, -collectively or individually, is “Kindred of the Dust,” which screens to-night at the Peoples. It is a First National attraction produced by R. A. Walsh from the famous novel :by Peter B. Kyne, whose readers are numbered in the hundreds of thousands. Seldom does one see a picture so gropingly effective, thanks to the skill ot the author and the producer, and the talent of the east. The suspense, which is quickly developed at the start oi the tale, rs ’ carried without diminution throughout the six reels, and the gathering momentum results in a cinnax which literally brings one out, of his seat. Especially noteworthy are the spectacular incidents of the story, such as a rescue on the log jam. Throughout the tale there is a thread ot romance which has a particular appeal of its own, with Miriam Cooper as “Nan of the Sawdust Pile,” and Ralph Graves as Donald MeKaye, playing the part of the lovers. The pictiire 13 that connot fail to appeal. There will jbe no increase in the -prices of admin-

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Taranaki Daily News, 7 November 1922, Page 5

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ENTERTAINMENTS. Taranaki Daily News, 7 November 1922, Page 5

ENTERTAINMENTS. Taranaki Daily News, 7 November 1922, Page 5

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