“THE FOUR HORSEMEN” COMING.

Manawatu Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 2474, 14 October 1922, Page 7

“THE FOUR HORSEMEN” COMING.

FIRST 1,000,000 DOLLAR PHOTOPLAY. Rex Ingram’s 1,000,(Ro dollar production o£ “The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse,” made tor Metro, is announced by the Tivoli Theatre, Pending, beginning on Tuesday. This will be the 'first showing here of the screen version of Vicente Blasco Ibanez’s novel. "The Four Horsemen” is the supreme expression ot the Great War. Certainly no novel has stirred the universal appeal created by the Ibanez masterpiece. Readers of the novel will recall that the story opens on the Argentine ranch of old Madariaga. A rioting, roystering despot, he is filled with Castilian pride of family and yearns for a male child to carry on his tradition. His two daughters have married ranch employees- —one French and the other German. Madariaga’s Latin antipathy to the German son-in-law brings with it a dislike of his half-German grandchildren, but when a son is born to the Frenchman, Desnoyers, the old man finds his dream realised. The boy, Julio, is selected as heir to the huge estate and is brought us as a spoiled prince of the realm. But Madariaga dies suddenly without making a will, and the German branch of the family finds itself sharing the estate equally with the Desnoyers. With this sudden wealth, the two families leave the Argentine for Europe. The Desnoyers settle in Paris, and Julio meets a fascinating little society woman, Marguerite Laurier, and the two of them are swept into a reckless love affair that takes no count of Marguerite’s elderly husband. Their butterfly mentalities do not even respond at first to the sudden shock of war that breaks about them. Through it all are galloping the four horsemen, spoken of by St. John in the Book of the Apocalypse—the grim figures of Conquest, War, Famine, and Death.