The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1911-12-28
DANTE's INFERNO PRAISED
by EUROPEAN ROYALTY


At the Temple tomorrow and Sat
|urday. commencing with a matinee
and with matinee Saturday. for the
first time in Ocala viii be seen Dante's
Inferno. in the same cinematographic
production which was witnessed and
emphaticaIly praised by the King of
Italy and the royal household A spe-
cial musical program has been pre-
pared sublime in character and well
adapted to the spirit of the poem. The
pictures viii be accompanied through
out by an explanatory lecture, and
Dante student has been engaged 10 di--
rect the production and deliver the
lecture.
All the incidents in the journey
throughout the Inferno. told with UNI
exampled power by the poet. are re-
produced in most Hfe-like manner.
1t is one of the greatest monuments
Of the worlds literature and the story
is Well known
Dante, when boy at the festival
Of flowers and prayer met a little girl
named Beatrice Dante was a little
more than nine. Beatrice was scarce
" nine Dante's intensely poetic soul,
his passion for the good. the true and
the beautiful. was set afire by the
deeply spiritual charm in Beatrice's
face In this love there was no ALLOW
OF sensual affection. To Dante as he
grew older Beatrice became a living
incarnation Of womanly purity, a type
IN flesh and blood of the uplifting IN
fluenees Of womanhood. The poet saw
her only few times. and then only
for brief moments after their first
meeting at the festival Beatrice ae-
1 ata6 h <rHl
spirit in which it was offered, as a
homage not 10 her sex, but to the viz
tues Of her sex. It Is said that she
recognized his excelling genius, ana
urged him to leave to the world all un-
dying memorial of his sefts ideals.
Dante early felt the Inspiration. that
| came of this. urging and planned to
make Beatrice immortal as an embod-
inleat of wemanly perfection in
spiritual sense. To accomplish THIS he
made her the central figure IN the
"Divina Comedia." In the "Iyivine
Comedy" Dante journeys from earth
into he'll. through purgatory into par
adfse. Beatrice gives him as his guide
through the Inferno pious pagan
poet Of antiquity, Virgil, the writer of
the immortal "Aeneiaa
The opening scenes Of the picture at
once convince the spectator of the
high artistic standard of the whole
production. The wandering OF Dante
through the dark and gloomy forest
the appearance OF the three beasts
impeding his way toward the summit
| his meeting with Virgil. are depicted
with vividness and loyalty 10 the
poem which defy description. All thru
the country about the valley to the
portals with the fatal legend. down
| inta the circles between the Acheron
and the Styx are seen wonderfully
exact reproductions of the scenes in
Dante. The Stygian Lake and the ad-
ventures on it's shores are marvels Of
pictorial art. The descent into the
CITY of Dts after the conquest OF the
opposing fiends again closely follows
the poem. Virgil and Dante pass thru
the city of Malebolge, down into the
lowest circles of Judas and Lucifer, in
the lake of loo. Words are quite in
adequate to give an idea Of the SPLEEN
ders of the films,
I Performances will commence in the
afternoon at and the evenings at
$50 o'clock,