Salt Lake Telegram | 1924-12-07 | Page 16 | Last Hours of Christ Filmed for "Ben Hur"

I I Last Hours of Christ Filmed for BenHur Ben Hur ROME Among ROME Among the many beato beau l- l ful and dramatic scenes to be filmed fUmed by Director Fred Niblo for the Met Met- ro-Gol ro Mayer ro wyn pro production o of General Lew Wallace's Wallaces novel Ben Bur which is being made In this I city will viii be reproductions relating to the Crucifixion the Return from Calvary 1 the Last a Supper t the Three l SWI Jt I Wise Men and n the 1 Palace e of Pilate e These remarkable and famous worM paintings deal with the last hours of the Ch Christ Chist In the Ben of Hur there will be no actual representation tion of the person of the Christ Whenever er It Is necessary to indicate His presence it will be he done by by suggestion alone perhaps by a 8 shado a hand the fallen Crown Crowno o of Thorns or the bottom of a robe It Is announced that the beauty of ot these s scenes enes will be filmed in tech tech- ocolor a process which will ivill re the scenes in their natural color The Last Last- i Supper poe io is a iS reproduction o of the painting painting l of Leonardo da Yin Vin ci the ci-the the Crucifixion Is from the mural painting in the Church of the TrinIta Trin- Trin Trinita Ita by Daniele da the Adoration Ad- Ad oration of the Magi from the frag- frag nent of a drawing by la da I Vinci which is now In Jn th the Louvre lou the I Return from Calvary from rom the pair painting ng of Herbet and all other scenes in this category are reproductions ot of famous paintings I The Tho part of Ben Hur is 15 being enacted enacted en- en acted by Novarro whip lay McAvOy plays plas the role of Esther Other Players include n Carmel rm i Myers Francis X X Bushman Kathleen Key rey Nigel de do Claire McDowell Frank Currier and Anders Randolf Randol Twenty huge galley ships exact replicas of those used in the first century v were sunk a a. a Leghorn Italy during the filming of Ben Hur nUl being produced un under er the di direction direction di- di of ot Fred Niblo When th the battle started some fifteen miles mileson out on the Mediterranean sea the ships rushed at each other other other-as as was the cu custom om in the first century century- and attempted to crash each others other's hulls nulls In the ramming that en ensue ensued en- en sue sued the ships were hopelessly crushed and quickly sank the crews Jumping Into the Icy waters with Ramon Novarro and Frank Currier included among the thousands or ot soldiers fe pod and sailors rs engaged for na na- na- na val vol batile- batile battle t scenes