EMPRESS THEATRB.

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 87, 12 April 1923, Page 5

EMPRESS THEATRB.

' "One of the Blood," which, is to be screened for the la«t time to-day at the Empress Theatre, shows Douglas Fairbanks as a man who, ignorant of all the facts about his origin, strives to amether his longing for the mother he has never known by a frantic search for excitement, and some lively scenes are ehown to indicate the way a man so placed may find solact. Among the supporting pictures isj "Endurance," a remarkable demonstration o! what a motor-car will do when it is really pushed. " "MISSING HUSBANDS/' A powerful -photo-drama entitled "Missing Husbands" will be screened at the Empress Theatre to-morrow. It has been dramatised from Pierre Benoit's sensational novel, "L'Atlantide," which' received the commendation' of the French Aoademy. The cast of exceptionally talented French cinema artists includes Stacia Napierkowska, Marie-Louise Iribe, Jean Angelo, Georges Melchior, Franceschi. and Abd-el-kader Ben-Ali. The settings are the last word in artistic extravagance and beggar comparisons with any, described in "A Thousand and One Night*," or the days of Cleopatra. Considerable of the action takes place within the palace of Queen Antinea, situated on a luxuriant oasis in the Sahara Desert. The palace is a''marvel of colour and design; and the embellishments ar« not lacking in this respeot. Thousands of dollar* were spent op these scenes alone, and the result is a revelation of exotic grandeur.