"CABIMA"
There are some remarkable personalities m the screen world of to-day. An example is Ernest 6 Pagani. the Genoan Giant, who plays the part of Masciste, the black slave, iji "Cabiria," tbe Italian v Company's 10,000 feet production^, which is to visit the Opera House on Wed-es^ day. The proportions of the huge dock laborer (for such he was) are such that he towers above the other characters m the play like a colossus. He tosses the big heavy men who took the part . of Carthagenian soldiers about like children. Hannibal, the great Carthagenian, whose army crossing the Alps forms one of the many big scenes m the film, is a huge man. noble of feature and heroic", -of build, but beside Masciste he Is as a child. The box plan opens at 10 o'clock to-mor-row morning, and seats should be booked / early. -.._..„ '
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 14124, 17 October 1916, Page 5
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