The Delta independent., 1921-12-09
1.-THE FOUR HoRsEMENr
COMING TO COLONIAL

Rex Ingram's $1,000. 900 production
Of "The Four Horsemen of the Apoca
lypse," made for Metro, is announced
by the Colonial theater to appear IN
January. This will be the first show
ing here of the screen version OF vi
cente Blasco Ibanez's novel that has
been acclaimed in New York. Chicago
Boston, Pittsburgh, Detroit and Los
Angeles as marking a new epoch in
the development of motion pictures
At its New York opening people paid
$40 a seat Critics said the picture
had definitely established the screen
not only as capable of rivaTing the
stage at its best, but OF SURPRISING II
in its grip upon the emotions
~The Four Horsemen" is the su-
preme expression of the great war,
Certainly no novel has stirred the uni
versal appeal created by the Ibanez
masterpiece. The book, now in its
one hundred and sixty-sixth edition,
has been read throughout the world
The monumental task of transferring
it to the screen was accomplished by
June Mathis, who made a scenario
that from all accounts has preserved
the force of the original and in many
incidents heightened it. But it is the
director, Rex Ingram, who has appar.
emily achieved the most sensational
success. He is reported to have set
a new mark in artistry of picturiza.
ton.
Readers of the novel will recall that
the story opens on the Argentine
ranch of old Madariaga, whose terri
tories are as extensive as those of the
great independent barons of feudal
times. And Madariaga rules with feu-
dal power. A rioting, boistering des-
pot, he is filled with Castilian pride of
family and yearns for male child to
carry on his tradition. His two daugh-
ters have married ranch employees
one French and the other German.
Madariaga's Latin antipathy to the
German son-in-law brings with it a
dislike OF his half-German grandchil-
dren, but when son is born to the
Frenchman, Desnoyers, the old man
finds his dream realized. The boy,
Julio. is selected as heir to the huge
estate and is brought up as spoiled
prince of the realm. As a young man
Julio becomes the companion of NADIA
riaga's debauched adventures in
Buenos Ayres tango resorts. But
Madariaga dies suddenly without MAX
ing will and the German branch of
the family finds itself sharing the es-
tate equally with the Desnoyers. With
this sudden wealth, the two families
leave the Argentine for Europe.
The Desnoyers settle in Paris, and
Julio, an expert tango dancer. be-
comes the sensation of the fashion
able dance places. He meets a fasci-
mating little society woman, Mar
guerite Laurier, and the two of them
are swept into a reckless love affair
that takes no count of Marguerite's
elderly husband. Their butterfly men,
talities do not even respond at first
to the sudden shock of war that break
to the sudden shock of war that
breaks about them II is 1914 and the
Germans are advancing toward Paris.
Marguerite is first awakened to the
realization OF tremendous events She
joins the French nursing force and
sacrifices her love for Julio in order
to be the constant companion of her
husband. who is blinded in battle.
Julio. left without the stimulation of
frivolous attractions, hears the call of
duty and enlists in the French army.
where he meets death at the hands
of his German cousin when the two
face each other in a trench raid.
Through II all are galloping the four
horsemen, spoken of by St. John in
the Book of the Apocalypse---the grim
figures of Conquest. War, Famine and
Death.
| The cast includes Rudolph valen-
tino. Alice Terry. Pomeroy Cannon,
Joseph Swickard. Brinsley Shaw. Alan
Hale, Bridgefta Clark. Mabel Van
Buren,. Brodwitch (Smoke) Turner.
Nigel de Brulier. John Sainpolis. Mark
Fenton, Virginia Warwick, Derek
Client. Stuart Holmes. Jean Hersholt,
Henry Klaus, Edward Connolly, Kath.
leen Key. Georgia woodthorpe. Wal
lace Berry. jacques d'Auray, Curt Reh-
field, Mile. Dolores, "Bull' Montana,
Isabel Keith. Jacques Lance, Noble
johnson, Harry Northrup, Minnehaha,
Arthur Hoyt and Beatrice Dominguez.
The photography is by John Seitz.
and the technical direction by Amos
Myers and Joseph Calder. Walter
Mayo was assistant to Rex Ingram