EMPRESS THEATRE.
A powerful photo-drama entitled "Miss. ing Husbande" will be screened: at the. Empress Theatre to-day. It has beea dramatised from Pierre Benoit's sensational novel, "L'Atlantide," which received the commendation of the French Academy. The cast of exceptionally talented French cinema artists includes Stacia Napierkowska, Marie-Louise Iribe, Jean Angelo, Georges Melchior. Frances- ] chi. and Abd-el-kader Ben-Ali. The settings are the last word in artistic extravagance and begsar comparisons with, any described in, "A Thousand and One Nights." 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 are not lacking in this respeot. Thousand* of dollars were spent op these scenes alone, and the result is a. revelation "of exotic grandeur.
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Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 88, 13 April 1923, Page 3
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140EMPRESS THEATRE. Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 88, 13 April 1923, Page 3
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