“DAMON AND PYTHIAS”
, *- —; ,dt - The spectacular photo-drama, "D«a ; - and Pythias,” will open a season at w-<; People's Picture Palaco nest week. famous picture-play was to have beef given its first New Zealand presentatWj last week, but oVing to the tTemcndo; s success which lias greeted “Neptuii(/ a Daughter” and the engagement the re . fore having been extended to tjrce weeks, the' presentation of “Damon iu.J Pythias" had necessarily to he deferred. The scene of this photo-play is laid during the era when life was filled with the thrill of battle, and depicts the games, the chariot races, the grace of dances of the.time, all in scenes of medieval splendour, and through all shines like a great dight the everlasting story of thc_ friendship of Damon and Pythias, the' crucible in which it was tested and from Which it came forth as pure gold, leaving the world a .lesson which is as imperishable as the trutii it carries.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XL, Issue 9172, 12 October 1915, Page 6
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157“DAMON AND PYTHIAS” New Zealand Times, Volume XL, Issue 9172, 12 October 1915, Page 6
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