Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-08-10
1.-THE TEN COMMANDMENTS"
OPENS AT OPERA HOUSE
TODAY

Today, the great photoplay for
which all have been waiting, THE
Ten Commandments, will open its
four days visit at the Augusta
Opera house. Eight performances
will be given, two each day, at 2.15
and 7.30, and 1t is expected that all
records for attendance at the Opera
house will be broken. nothwithstand-
ing the fact that this is the "off
season" in most theatres.
This huge Paramount picture, a
tribute to the genius of Cecil b. De-
Mile, has literally astounded the
whole of the country. Never has a
photoplay had such long runs as
this. Never have so many months of
research been taken and never has
there been gathered together such a
cast for the presentation Of a single
screen drama. 1t Is called a
cinemasterpiece, and 1t is all that.
Theodore Roberts, Agnes Ayers.
Nita Naldi, Rod LaRocque, Charles
LaRoche, Robert Edeson. Estelle
Taylor, Lawson Butt, Richard Dix
these are just few of the stellar
performers who appear. Then, too.
the production Is to be at popular
prices. a fact that will make it pos
sible for everyone to witness the
presentations.
In point of magnitude, the follow
ing will give an idea as to just how
great IS THE Ten om'nandn ents":
Main outdoor set of Rameses:
100 feet high. $50 feet long.
Materials actually used: Is tons
modelling clay, 800 tons plaster,
$4,000 feet lumber, $4,000 pounds
nails, Is miles cable and wire.
Weight of Sphinxes, nearly four
tons each: Height of Pharaoh's
stone colossi, thirty-f1ve feet.
Equipment Of Camp Cecil B. De
Mile: Water pumping and tank
system. 10000 gallon daily ca
pacity; electricity. daily consump-
ton 1000 kilowatts; two dining
halls, 1000 sittings each; $500 sleep
ing cots and bedding; daily commits
sary, five meat animals and three
and half tons OF other food; fleet
of motor cars and sand sleds, Al;
miles of sidewalks, 5; mechanics on
salary roll. $50 cooks and assist
ants, 125; police. firemen and
soldiers, $50.
Costumes, harness, ETC.: 16 miles
of cloth, made up into over 5000
costumes. Three tons of leather
made up into 250 sets of Egyptian
chariot harness. Two tons of tai
cum powder to whiten actors faces,
500 gallons of glycerine to grease
their bodies, 200 pounds of safety
pins to pin up the Grapes.
Animals: 900 horses, 200 burros,
so camels, 1000 cattle, 500 sheep
and goats, 300 fowl, guinet hens and
ducks, so dogs. In addition to grain
ration, 10 tons of hay a day required.
Nationalities of the players: Egyp-
ton, Coptic, Arabian, Palestinian,
Syrian, Armenian, Mesopotamian,
Turkish. Caucasian, Russian, Rou-
manian, Bulgarian. Serbian, Czecho-
Slovakian, Zingari, Greek, Italian,
Spanish. Portuguese, Moorish, Polish,
Swiss. German. Austrian, Hungarian,
scandinavian, Dutch, Belgian. British
and American.
Roster Of principals and extras,
$500, including $50 Old World
Israelites. Roster of technical and
mechanical workers $50, including
architects, artists, hydraulic en-
gineers. army men, doctors, police,
firemen. chefs, stenographers, dress
makers. linemen, electricians, car
penters, masons, plasterers. IRON
workers. plumbers, harness makers,
tent-makers, blacksmiths, wagon
makers. drivers, chauffeurs, camel