GRAND THEATRE.
The screen version of Lew Wallace's "Ben Hur" is the main attraction at the Grand Theatre this week. The story is one of revenge and of love. Revenge that is sought by Ben Hur for the wrong done him and his noble House by the Romans. When the new Senator, Valerius Gratus, is being welcomed to Jerusalem, and as he makes his triumphal way along crowded streets,-a tile from an overhanging roof falls from the palace of Judah, Prince' of Hur, and strikes his head. That the occurrence was an accident is an explanation which carries no weight with the Roman?, and Ben Hur is sent to the galleys for life, and his mother and sister to th« hideous dungeon of Antonio. A fine prologue introduces the story proper, Mr David HcGill singing the "Star of Bethlehem."
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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19154, 10 November 1927, Page 8
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