The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-11-10
THE FOUR HORSEhlEN"
$l,OOO,OOO PHOTOPLAY
AT PRINCESS THEATRE
HAILED As THE SUPREME EN.
PRECISION OF SCREEN
ART

Rex lngram's sl,OOO,UO0 production
Of The -Four Horsemen of the Apoca-
lypse' made for Metro. is announced
10y the Princess Theatre beginning
Sunday. This will be the first show
ing here OF the screen version of vi.
cente Blasco lbanezs novel that has
been acclaimed in New York, Chicago,
Boston, Pttshurgh. Detroit and Los
Angles Us marking q new epoch in
the development Of motion pictures.
A. its New York opening people paid
$40 u seat Critics said the picture had
definitely established the screen not
only, as capable of rivalling the stage
at IFS best, but of SURPRISING it in It's
grip upon the emotions
The -Four Horsemen" is the su.
preme expression OF the Great War.
Certainly no novel has stirred the
universal 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
t TO the screen was accomplished by
June Mathis, who made a scenario
that from all accounts has preserv-
ed the force of the orginial and in
many incidents heightened it. BUT it
is the director, Rex Ingram who has
apparently achieved the most sensa
tional success. He is reported to have
set new mark in artistry in picturi-
2ation.
Readers Of the novel will recall that
the story opens on the Argentins
ranch of old Madariaga, whose terri
tories are as extensive as those of
the great Independent barons of feud-
al times. And Madariaga rules with
teudal power A rioting, registering
despot he is filled with Castilian
pride of family and yearns for
male child TO carry on his tradition.
His two daughter, have married
ranch employees-One French and the
other German. Madariaga's latin an.
tipathy to the German son-in-law
brings with it dislike of his half
German grand children, but when a
son is born to the Frenchman, Des-
noyers, 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 os the realm
AS young man Julio becomes the
companion of Madanagas debauched
adventures in Buenos Ayres tango
resorts. Bur Madariaga dies sudden
ly without making q will and the Ger
man branch OF the family finds itself
sharing the estate equally with the
Desnoyers. With this sudden wealth
the two families leave the Argentine
for Europe.
The Desnoyors settle in Paris. and
julio, an expert tango dancer. be-
comes the sensation oil the fashionable
dance places. He meets a fascinating
little society woman. Marguerite I.au-
rier and the two of them are swept
into a reckless love affair that takes
no count of Marguerites elderly hus.
band. Their butterfly mentalties do
not even respond at first to the sud
den shock of war that breaks about
them. II is 1914 and the Germans are
advancing toward Paris. Marguerite is
lirSt 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. Jolio, 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 Ger.
ihan cousin when the two face each
other in a trench raid.
Through it all are galoping the
four horsemen spoken OF by 81. John
in the Book Of the Apocalypse-the
grim figures of Conquest, War, Fam
Inc and Death.
The cast includes Rudolph Valen.
tino, Alice Terry. Pomeroy Cannon,
Joseph Swlckard. Brnsley Shaw,
Alan Hale, Bridgetta Clark, Mabel
Van Buren. Brodwitch (Smoke) Tur.
ner, Nigel de Brulier. John Sainpolis,
Mark Fenton, Virginia Warwick. De.
rex Client, Stuart Holmes, Jean Her
sholt Henry Klaus, Edward Connolly,
Georgia WCodthorpe. Kathleen Key,
Wallace Berry, Jacques d'Auray. Curt
Rehfeld, Mile. Dolores, Bull" Mon.
tana, Isabel Keith, Jacques Lanoe,
Noble Johnson. Harry Northrup,
Minnehaha, Arthur Hoyt and Beatrice
Dominguez
The Photography is by John Seltz,
and the technical direction by Amos
Myers and Joseph Calder. Walter
Mayo was assistant 10 Rex Ingram.