Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-09-01
Film Show Is Wonderfully Staged and Its Realistic Scenes
Quickly Win Approval of Observation-Disclosures
and Singing Excellent.

mirrors causes the Roman fleet, with
which Fulvius was sailing, to burn
! to the waters edge. Fulvius saves
| himself by swimming to the coast,
where he subsequently reached the
house of Cabiria's parents, to whom
he gave the news that their child still
| lived.
Fate again favored Fulvius by plac-
| ing him among the commanders of
Scipio during the final siege of Car
thage. One night he penetrated UNI
observed into the city to explore the
enemy's defenseS. Returning to the
tavern he formally frequented. he
obtained news of his faithful slave,
Maciste, whom he released from the
milestone. Reunited, Fulvius and Ma
ciste returned to HannibaPs camp.
On the way they are intercepted by
the army of Syphax, king of Cirta, an
, ally of the Carthaginians, and are
locked in the cellar of HasdrubaPs
palace, condemned to die of thirst.
A slave girl, taking pity on them,
gives them water to drink through
the iron bars of their prison. The
slave is Cabiria, but they do not rec
ognize her.
Sophonisba, the daughter Of Has
drubal, disturbed by dreams, is con-
WINGED that her country's misfortune
Carthage being besieged by the Ro-
mans) is due to the wrath of the god
Moloch. She believes that this was
her punishment for having taken
from him the victim destined for him.
Sophonisba confides in the priest
Karthalo, whom she asks to interpret
her dreams and presents ELISA to
him. The priest recognizes in her the
little Cabiria who was torn away
from him ten years before In the tenn
pie by the Roman slave, Maciste.
Maciste, from a hiding place, hears
the interview between the priest and
the girl, and learns that she is the
long lost Cabiria, now grown to beau
! tiful womanhood and called ELISA.
He hears the priest tell ELISA the
price she must pay to him for her
| life. Maciste intervenes, saves Ellis
sa, and kills the high priest. But he
and Fulvius are again overpowered
! by force of numbers and ELISA Is
| sent back to Sophonisba, who con-
dennis her to die. Sophonisba her
self however, dies by poison rather
than submit to the Roman yoke, and
out Of gratitude to Fulvius, who pro-
cured her the poison, restores ELISA
to him.
The war ends. The Roman vessels
again sail over the sea where the
naval victories proclaim Rome's tri-
umph. On one of the vessels Full
vius and ELISA return to Italy,
| where they are united in marriage.
To pick out any one particular
scene in this marvellous film show
| for special commentator would be
a most difficult task. The eruption OF
Mt. Etna, followed by the crumbling
| of the marble palaces of Catana,
| is decidedly realistic. Occasionally
! the work of the stage manager would
show ITSELF but this Is hardly notice.
| able to those who are not familiar
with the making of a moving pic
| ture.
The sinking of the Roman fleet and
the siege of the city of Cirta are Won
derful in their completeness, and real
ism is stamped on the scenes through
| out.
"Cabiria" can be accorded nothing
| but commendati and when the
final curtain descended last night the
audience filed out of the theatre
awed by the sensational and almost
unbelievable picture it had witnessed.
Not only are the pictures something
that nobody should miss, but the
singing and orchestration throughout
| are a rare treat.