PARAMOUNT AND ARTCRAFT.

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 131, 30 November 1922, Page 5

PARAMOUNT AND ARTCRAFT.

The final screening of "Omar Khayyam," which continues to attract large houses to the Paramount and Artcraft Theatres, will take place to-night. The scenes are laid in Persia, and interwoven with the general theme is an Eastern prologue "In a Persian Garden.". "IF I WERE KING." Justin Huntly McCarthy's famous story, "If I Were King," has been pioturised under a similar title, snd will be shown at the P/aramount and . Artcraft Theatres to-morrow. "William Farnum I plays the lading character, Francois Villon, the vagabond poet. "The strangest knave in all Paris," says the book. "Scholar, poet, drinker, sworder, drabber, blabber, good at pen, point, and pitcher. In the Court of Miracles they call him the King of the Cockleshells." Villon meets the King's Grand ConI stable, and from then on enters into the ' political Uife of the city, later to lead its army against the rebellious Duke of Bur- | gundy. .A strong love interest is intrp-, duced by Katherine, the King's kinswoman, with whom Villon becomes infatuated. The settings are excellent, and a .special cast has been selected to support William Farnum. The supporting picture is "A Self-made Man," featuring William Russell and Renee Atiofee. The other films on the programme are varied, and interesting, and excellent incidental music ■is played at each house., ■ .