Show Historical Drama r For Amer an Patrons Th The American opens toda today for a a. Cabins another four days davs' Ia s run of stupendous picture The scenario comes from the fertile brain of Gabriele d' d dAn An- An and in evolving this plot of his own Rome Home the theauthor author has nas brought Into the story scenes and actual happenings that offer abundant play to the cameras camera's cameras camera's cameras camera's cam cam- eras era's faculty to reproduce thrills and stupendous scenic effects Realism has never reached a higher point In screen reproduction than In Int Inthe t the the slopes volcanic I of scenes Mount oue t actually Etna Ct Ul the limed filmed I rigorous o on hardships of Hannibal's passage of the Alps which were taken in Switzerland the burning of the Roman noman fleet shot ina In Ina a a. lake about twenty-five twenty miles from Turin and the old fortifications of Vecchia on the Mediterranean which add atmosphere to many of the incidents The battle scenes provide some of the strongest thrills thrill In film history recording the storming of which was enacted only after atter months of arduous arduous arduous ous rehearsal during luring which actors and extras were drilled In ancient methods of warfare The employment of nets to catch attacking soldiers who were thrown from the walls of the city failed to prevent the injury of more than a score of combatants when the theo theu movie o army t formed its human man pyramid l to mount u the tho battlements 1 Another r sensational climax comes inthe In Inthe Inthe the burning of the n Roman man fleet when Archimedes the Greek philosopher uses the rays ras of the sun to set the ships afire Huge double convex glass mirrors caught the solar rays and concentrated concentrated concentrated con con- their destructive power upon the helpless fleet Some of the most Impressive scenes are filmed around d the temple of Moloch oo i il et f where e sacrifices r made dally daily to the an- an dents dents' omnipotent power For the ex exterior exterior ex- ex of the temple a n. set was erected feet high showing the grasping Jaws of the incarnate opened to receive victims It Itis is to escape the high I i priests ns at 1 this 1 temple e yh that Ful- Ful t takes his 11 sixty five sixty five r foot t plunge from the cliffs Into the sea |