THE LYCEUM.

Manawatu Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 2645, 14 May 1923, Page 2

THE LYCEUM.

REAL THRILLS IN “QUEEN OF SHEBA” CHARIOT RACES. The big surprise in the ‘Queen of Sheba,” the stupendous Wm. Fox 10-fcol masterpiece which commences a two-night's season at the Lyceum to. night and special matinee to.morrow, at 2.30, is the chariot race. It is so exciting that hundreds of people have asked how it was made. J. Gordon Edwards, who directed the firming of the story for William Fox, answers the question as follows: “There is no secret about it. You can’t keep a motion picture set containing 5000 people, and covering 150 acres a secret. We sim. ply built the arena, put on the races and photographed them from every angle we could think o.f. Two of the chariots overturned, giving Jim Murphy, a driver the narrowest escape of his career. Tom Mix, the cowboy star, did some thrilling riding for us, by way of what he called “whooping it up,” and Betty Blythe arid Nell Craig, driv. ing a chariot apiece, proved that they wore as skilled and as daring horsewomen as ever I’d seen inri my life. That’s about all I can say.” It might be added that it took weeks of work to arrange for the race, and that thous. ands of dollars were expended on it.