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Show THE TEN COMMANDMENTS Cecil B. DcMille's picturization of "The TcnCommaudments," is coming to the Star theater Tuesday, Wednesday Wed-nesday and Thursday, August 18, 19 nnd 20. It hns come to us with more suprelative ndvance. notices than any other picture which has ever been shown in Springville. Oddly Odd-ly enough, this picture' deserves most of these adjectives. It is great, stupendous, colorful and moving. mov-ing. It has comedy, spectacle and drama. A perfect cast, a fine story nnd inspired direction. "What else could one ask for? The production takes a little over two hours to show. It is divided into two parts, ancient and modern. In the former the picture opens on the Israelite slaves building the city of Itamcses in Egypt. They are being cruelly trented by the Pharoah, and things look dark until un-til Moses emerges to lead them. He asks for their liberty and when it is not granted ten plagues are visited upon Egypt. After Rameses' son is killed in the last of the last of the plagues, Rameses orders the Hebrews to leave. They go with aching bodies and glad hearts over the desert sands. This pnrt of the picture is done in natural colors and in its sweep is overwhelming. Then follows scenes showing Moses receiving the cammandments on the mount, the children of Isreal worshipping the golden calf in a wild orgy and finally the fade-out in which Moses, wrathful at seeing his people's treachery, flings the tablets which he had received on the rocks, smashing them into a thousand parts. The modern story was written by Jennie Macpherson. It shows that the commandments nre as great n moral force today as they were five thousand years ago. The lives of two brothers are followed. One lives a life in which he creates and bracks his own laws, while the other keeps the decalogue as his guiding force. In the end evil is punished and good is triumphant. |