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'HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE
DAME" AT GRAND ON
MONDAY AND TUESDAY

The Hunchback of Notre Dame"
the massive and much heralded film
production OF Victor Hugos story
masterpiece which swept into over
night fame in New York, will be given
its local premier at the Grand Thea
ter Monday and Tuesday.
Never before, it is said, has there
been offered a picture production rep
resenting so stupendous cost-$1,-
0,000-never film presentation so
exact in its details, so artistic in its
conception, so wonderful in the acting
of its seventy-hve principals, two hun
dred principals, and in the hand
ling of the mob scenes in which more
than 5000 persons take part.
Lon CLANCY, admittedly the finest
Interpreter of unusual character roles
on either stage or screen, plays the
stellar part of "Quasimodo," the de-
formed bel1-ringer of Notre Dame,
with Ernest Terrence as Chopin,
the underworld king; and Patsy Ruth
Miller as "Esmeralda.
Carl Laemmle, who founded Uni
versal City out in Southern California
it is said, has achieved something
there which awakens the utmost admir-
alton. He has taken Hugo's rather tur-
gid melodramatic novel, and after
building replica of Paris famous
Cathedral, he has reto1d Hugo's story
in pictures-vital, vivid pictures that
hold the attention and excite admira-
ton by their undeniab1e power and
beauty.
The spirit of the story is Quasi
modo." the hunchback, an elemental
creature, twisted in body and restrict
ed in mind, who haunts the great
church. "Quasimodo," as Mr.. CLANCY
presents him, is said to be gruesome
monster, and yet under the forblddlng
aspect the actor succeeds in making
the character human and pitiful His
daring poses on the projecting gar
goyles of the Cathedral, his bold des-
cent, stone by stone, of the front ia
cade of the great church, his hazardous
swinging on the. great bells at the risk
of his life the gruesome scene OF his
castigation in the market place, and
the pathos of his final act as, dying,
he rings his own death knell on his
beloved bells, are features, it is said,
that make "The Hunchback of Notre
Dame" the most noted film produc-
ton to date.
In constructing the Cathedral of
Notre Dame at Universal City. an
army carpenters, masons and other
were employed. The build
ing is an exact replica in every detail
as the famous Cathedral looked in
1882. 1t is declared to be an extra
ordinary feat and an architectural and
technical triumph. In addition to the
Cathedral, other historical sets in
clude the Court of Miracles, Place du
Parvis, Palace de Justice, interior OF
the Bastile and the seven Noble Man
sions. This may give faint idea of
this, the accredited most important
screen production, not only in the his
tory of the Universal Film Company,
but of that of any producing concern
in the world Wallace Worley was the
director.
Among the other principals in the
big cast are: Norman Kerry, who plays
'Phoebus"; Tully Marshall, as Louis
XII; Raymond Hatton, as "Gringeire"
Nigel de Brulier, as Don Claude" and
Gladys Brockwell as the crazy Go
du1e"
With "The Hunchback of Notre
Dame it is said that "digerent pic
ture" has arrived, one that marks the
dawn of a new era in cinema art, and
one that has made Carl Laemmle's
slogan of Better and finer produc-
tons" an absolute fact.