THE SHEIK.

Gisborne Times, Volume LVIII, Issue 9618, 14 February 1923, Page 6

THE SHEIK.

TO-MORROW AT THE OPERA

HOUSE.

Edith M. Hull’s sensational novel filmed by the Paramount Company will be shown -in all its gorgeous beauty at the Opera House to-morrow night commencing at 7.45. This film is a living tiling, bringing the weird | beauty of the East before the eyes, i Swaying palms, velvet tropic nights, swirling passions born of a fierce land, the awful peril of the intruding English beauty, are mixed in a veri_table riot of emotion and adventure in the strange bizarre home of Arab- , ian color. This photoplay is unique in 1 the real sense, and lias a novel appeal ! reminiscent of a weird Asiatic per- | fume. All Hie exotic and barbarous | passion that had been pent up for ■ ages is vividly depicted m the many beautiful scenes in the play. All that is conveyed in the language of the book is visualised. “All that is tender and holy, all the deeps of the heart that may nob be uttered are symbolised to mankind in a woman’s breast. And you put your head on ! mine, and crowned my life at that 1 moment. I kissed your hair. With trembling fingers I stroked your dear j bead, resting my face upon it—how j intensely I had longed to do this, j Our hearts seemed to stop beating ; !wo dared not breathe. Then in the ' darkness I whispered \ all the longing love words wifh which my heart had been in travail for so long. Oh, the belief of that deliverance. I do not know how Jong we remained tjius I entranced. The heavens opened for I me in that moment, and I saw the heart of God in its infinite beauty.” Another great scene that will cling to the memory when most other things'are forgotten: “On and on, an on over the shining sands beneath tiie stars—how beautiful the stars were that night, and all for us. And then, in the darkness, once more I knew your long, sweet, subtle kiss.” Rudolph Valentine and Agnes Ayres as Sheik Abdul Ahmed and Lady Diana, rise to wonderful heights of 'artistry throughout the unfolding of this passionate romance. There are scores of gorgeous scenes vividly depicted, the big fete in the Casino at Buskra, Monte Carlo of the desert; the stronghold in the desert of the" bandit Omar. Suspense, action, color, excitement, thrills, love and mystery; a drama of the burning sands that rings true yet presents a back -j ground like that of., the Arabian Nights. That is “The Sheik”: The plan is at Muir’s.