The Sentinel=record., 1913-12-09
MAGNIFICENT FEATURE DRAWS GREAT CROWDS
NOTHING TO EQUAL HAST DAYS OF PoMPElr" EVER SEEN IN
 HOT SPRINGS.

To the very crater Of Mt Vesuvius went the camera man for material for The Last Days of PouDtt." the | greatest and most costly moving pie ture feature this city has ever seen which opened at the New Cent-sl The shown today. Big as this palasIal | house is. the crowd at thS matinee taxed the theatre to its cay ac,ty, and last night standing room was at a | premium. And no wonder fer this is g feature that none should miss, and all that has been said commentators of The Last Days of PomDeii" did net half eXLrsss the grandeur of tiis most elaborate 3 oduction.
 The story is too well known to Il ed mnch elaboratlcn hera. Suffice to state, no detail of Pasqaal's master piece has been omitted This is q foreign production, and it is staged amid the palaces of kings, with the most artistic interpretation of respec- tive characters that have ever graced any European picture seen in Hot Springs.
 Possibly it is in the magndfcence of the production, the views of pal aces, exterior and interior. No finn ever had a more elaborate setting. One can see the costly structures, transformed from modern times to meet the environments of that period when Mt. Vesuyius. as if to punish Arbaces and place the crown of ap- probation of the gods on Glaucus, the young Athenian, burst forth in all the frenzy of pent-up nature The marble columns, the costly statuary, tall and imposing palms, beautiful gardens rare flowers-all are there, while the interior scenes reflected the extrava Gance of kings Costly Tapestries prized rugs, the skins of tigers, leo pards and other animals, more ricl statIary, properties that were in keep ing with the period depicted--a won derful, most magnificent richness-al this and mere is shown in this pic ture.
 Back to the days of the ampitheatr, the camera takes us, and one sees th' po9ulace of Pompeii gathered to watcl Glaucus fight the lions. Previous t the entrance of tine lions the gladia tors engage in combat, the sports o the ancients are revived and then .i, +T, if 4A., nm Glaucus feels he is no longer mortal and all trace of fear vaIaishes. The cage door is opened and out into tht arena leap the liens. Glaucus stands unafTaid.
 Nydia, the blind slave, who wor ships Glaucus more than she pays homage to fer gods, proves that Ar baces committed the murder for which ClauclIs was doomed to meet the lions and while the shaggy beasts dart from one end of the great ampi'heatre to the other, announcement is made tC the crowd and the wrong corrected The guilty Arbaces is thrown into the arena.
 And then Mt Vesuvius bursts forth Here is where the real views at the edge of the crater are shown. Nothing like this fire and smoke scene has ever before been placed in picturs One can see the hCt lava running down the mountain side, while the heavens are brilliant with the glow from the yolcano's interior. It is al most appalling, is this scene. It riv cts ones attention to the curtain. And what a fire scene Is staged amid pal aces grand and in and around the ampitheatre, Smoke and fire every where, and the po3ulace, frantic wtb | fear, forgetting the object of their half holiday, realizing the gods are poufng their wrath down upon them flee from PompeH. NNdia leads Glau' GUS and lone, his sweetheart, to the sea. where, not ill a modern ship, but enc such. as were ill use in those days they set sail for Athens, the heavens clouded by Mt. Vesuvius outburst. This si.ow runs two hours and if teen minutes, and every second is worth while. 1t is something that all should sec. If you have not seen tlils feature, do so today. Children will appreciate it. It will teach them more of this particular part of ancient his tory than aIl the text books combined ----f,----------