OMAR KHAYYAM.

Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17645, 23 December 1922, Page 17

OMAR KHAYYAM.

• ■ ♦ SUPERB PEODUCTION AT IJBEETT NEXT SATDBDAT. The' management of the tiberty Theatre . is< evidently leaving no atone unturned to secure the best of the world's film market for presentation' at their 'theatre. They have now secured the Selected Super Film's firtt.release, "The Rubaiyajt of Omar Khay»yam,',Vwhioh will be screened next Saturday, December 30th. V Omar 4hayyam is still the rage; of America,'and niw the delight of London. ■ • This great film. carries the onlookers through all phases' of human life, so strange and bewitching a scena is it of grave and gay. The poem, immortalised by the genius of Fitzgerald, has long captivated millions, and its imagery! and picturesque atmosphere smell of the -Eaist and of Persia, in particular. The film contains, an appeal to the eyes in an almost beirildering pagean-try-of gorgeous scenes. Omar, the man,know? the follies and joys o< life, calmly- reflecting on them and pointing out the delusion. of trying short-cuts tt> the millenium. The films .tells the story of three boys who swear a' blood ract that whichever attaiifs • - all should share the .success. The picture makes an irresistible appeal to all. It is a reminder that sectional views are not world-wide, and that human nature can only change by painfully slow steps. It shows the spacious firmament on high, with the stars in their courses, andl market-places, tlie with thousands o:t frequenters, each intent on his business, great -or small, cities vast, thronging with. life—rosb-red cities half .as old as Time —the Sul'tan on his throne, his attendants and ministers 'and loves, the: muezzin (crier) calling the fiithful to worship. the' unheeding crowd clatnouring at the tavern door, the potter thuihping hig wet clay, gardens ablaze with»tha Persian rose, ruined temples and palaces, where Jamstryd gloried .with Bahram, that (treat hunter—these and a hundred other scunes are gracefully shown. Interwoven is a charming love story in which Katherine Key shows magnetic . force as the daughter ~o| the Sheik, and Raymond Navarro, as her .lover, plays with power Bnd restraint. Il jg a film that lises above superlatives. \ A special Eastern prologue-has been prepared by Misa Jlillicent Jennings. The box plana will open at The Bristol next Wednesday.