Show The Sheik Opens ens Weeks Week's Stay At Gem Biskra is known as the Monte Carlo of the desert It is the gathering place for the wealthy the dissolute the ad adventurous adventurous adventurous ad- ad venturous the pleasure seeking people peo peo- pie of ot the African littoral and affords I a marvelously picturesque background round for fiction or photoplay It is used In George Melford's Paramount Paramount Paramount Para Para- mount production o ot of The Sheik opened a weeks week's engagement eng at the Gem theatre last night Agnes Ayres and Rudolph Valentino are the featured players with a fine supporting cast In a big casino the most colorful spot in Biskra the scene scents of a grand fete given by t the e young Shiek is laid and there the beautiful customs of ot tho the Orient are shown with great fidelity Other scenes are re those upon the Sahara Sa Sa- hara with the wild riders of or the desert desert des des- desert ert the stronghold In the sandy sea of a bandit of the Sahara and the Sheiks Sheik's hf oriental dwelling |