Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1921-11-09
-FOUR HORSEMEN
The APOCALYPSE.
A S1,000,000 Production to Open at
Lyric Theatre for Three Days
And Nights, Starting
November IA.
RESERVED SEATS ON
SALE AT LYRIC
One of the Greatest Screen Produc-
tions Produced in Years, and
Draws Immense Crowds.


Rex Migrants $1,000,000 production
of 'The Four Horsemen of the
Apocalypse, made for the Metro, is
announced for the Lyric theatre, be-
ginning Monday, November IA and
running three days. This will be the
first showing here of the screen yer.
sion of Vicente Blasco Ibanez's novel
that has been acclaimed in New
York, Chicago, Boston, Los Angeles,
San Francisco, Pittsburgh and De-
troit, as marking a new epoch in
the development of motion pictures.
AT its New York opening people
paid SO a seat. Critics said the pic
ture had definitely established the
screen not only as capable of rival
ing the stage at its best, but sur
passing it in its grip upon the
emotions.
"The Four Horsemen" is the
supreme expression of the Great
War. Certainly no novel has stirred
the universal appeal created by the
Ibanez masterpiece. The book now
in its two hundredth 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 Ingrem, who
has apparently achieved the most sem
sational saccesS. He is reported 40
haua set new mark III artistry of
picturiZatloIl. ne1-s r. A. ,o,,ol
will recall that the stofs sne nove'
the Argentine ranch of old Madam
ara, whose territories are as ea0oen'
siye as those of the great independ
ent barons of feudal times. An'
Madariaga rules with feudal power
A rioting, registering despot, ne J
filed with Castilian pride OF famli
and yearns for male child to carr
on his traditions. His two daughtel
have married ranch employees-on
French and other German. Maes
riaga's Latin antipathy to the Ge'
man son law brings with it disliF
for his half German grandchildre
but when "a son is born ITO "a
Frenchman Desnoyers, the old mi
finds his dream realized. The DO
Julio. is selected as the heir to z
huge estate and is brought up as
spoiled prince of the realm. As
voung man Julio becomes the col
panion of Madariaga in his
hauched adventures in the Bue
Ayres tango resorts. With TINS s.
den wealth, the two families lea
the Argentine for Europe. The u
movers settle in Paris, and JUNO,
expert tango dancer, becomes
sensation of the fashionable da
halls. He meets a fascinating al
society woman, Marguerite bauf
and the two of them are swept
a desperate love affair that takes
account of Marguerite's elderly
hand. Their butterfly mentahues
not even respond to the hrst ST
Of war that breaks about them
is 1914 and the Germans are
vancing toward Paris. Margue
;s first awakened to the reahza
of tremendous events. She joins
French nursing forces and sacri
her love for Julio in order &c
the constant companion OF her
hand who has been blinded IN d
Julio, left without the stimulatio
frivolous attractions, hears the
of duty and enlists in the RI
army. where he meets DEAN al
hands of his German cousin
the two face each other in a u
raid.
Through it all are gallopmt
four horsemen, spoken OF o!
John in the Book of the Apoca
the grim figures of Conquest
Famine and Death The cast I'M
Rudolph Valentino, Alice
Pomeroy Cannon, Wallace
Joseph Swickard, Alan Hale
Northrup, Mabel Van Buren,
lev Shaw, Nigel de Bruiier,
sanpolis, Jacques d'Auray, r
Connolly, Derek Ghent, Mark :
Jean Hershoh, "Bull'' Mo
Noble johnson, Virginia Wa
Henry Klaus, Isabel Keith,
uo,n,as Georgia Wood