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''Four Horseman"
Coming To Grand
Hailed as The Supreme Expression
of Screen Art

Rex Migrants 100000 production
OF The Four Horsemen of the Apoc-
alypse," made for Metro, is announced
by the Grand Theater beginning Mon
day. This is the. second showing here
of the screen version of Vicente Bias
co lbanez's novel that has been &C
claimed in New York, Chicago, Bos-
ton, Pittsburgh, Detroit and Los An
geies as marking new epoch in the
Development of motion pictures At
its New York opening people paid $40
a seat. Critics said the picture had de-
finitdly established the screen not only
as capable OF rivalllng the stage at its
best, but of surprising it i'll its grip
upon the emotions
The Four Horsemen' is the sup
RENE expression of the Great War. Ger
talnly no novel has stirred the univer-
sal appeal created by the Ibanez mas
terpiece. 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 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 perturbation.
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-
| dial power. A riot;ng, registering deSpot,
he is filled with Castilian pride of
family and yearns for a male child to
carry on his tradition. His two daugh-
tiers have each married ranch employ
ees-one French and the other Ger
man. Madariagas Latin antipathy to
the German son-in-law brings with
it dislike of his half-German grand
| children, but when son is born to
the Frcnchman, Desnoycrs, the old
man finds his dream realized. The boy
/ Julio, is selected as heir to the huge
estate and is brought up as a spoiled
prince of the realm. As a young man
| Julio becomes the companion of MAZDA
riaga's debauched adventures in Buenos
Ayres tango resorts But Madariaga
dies suddenly without making a will
and the German branch of the family
finds itself sharing the estate equally
with the Desnoyers. With this sudden
wealth the two families leave the Ar
gentine for Europe.
The Desnoyers settle in Paris, and
Julio, an expert tango dancer becomes
the sensation of the fashionable dance
places. He meets a fashionable little
| society woman, Marguerite Laurier,
and the two of them are swept into a
reckless love affair that takes no count
OF Marguerites elderly husband Their
butterfly mentaitics do not even res
pond at first to the sudden shock of
war that breaks about them.lt is 1914
and the Germans are advancing toward
Paris Marguerite is the first awaken
! ed 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 bat
! tie Julio. left without the stimulation
OF frivolous attractions. hears the call
, of duty and cnlists 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 it all are gallopng 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 Nalcn-
tino, Alice Terry, Pomeroy Cannon,
Joseph Swickard. Brinslcy Shaw, Alan
Hale, Bridgctta Clarke, Mabel Van
Buren,, Brodwitch (Smoke) Turner,
Nigel De Brulier, John Sainpolis,
/ Mark Fenton. Virginia Warwick. Der
elk Client, Stuart Holmes, Jean Her
sholt, Henry Klaus, Edward Connolly,
George Woodthorpe Katherine Key,
Wallace Berry, Jacques d'Auray, Curt
Rehfeld. Mile. Dolores, "Bull'' Mon
tana, Isabel Keith, jacques Lance,
Noble Johnson. Harry Norttrup, Min
n"haha, Arthur Hoyt and Beatrice
Dominguez.
The photography is by John Seitz,
and the technical direction by Amos
Myers and Joseph Calder Walter Ma
yo was assistant to Rex Ingram.
Women card sharks are replacing
the men gamblers on the Trans A t1ar -