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Show Via presents The Bible at poplar prices Direct from its roadshow engagement, en-gagement, 20th Century-Fox's presentation of Dino De Laur-entii's Laur-entii's motion picture, "The Bible," is now playing at the Villa Theatre with special pop- the ward having the largest attendance at-tendance at the dance, will be declared the bishop of the year. Members in every ward in Springville Stake are being asked to support their bishop by attendance at the ball, for which there is no admission. Participants in the floor show, will be in costume and there will be special lighting effects and decorations for the event. Semi formal or best dress is suggested for the event at which light refreshments will be served. alar prices in special scheduled oerformances. Every ticket riolder will be guaranteed a seat, though there will be no reserved seats. Directed by John Huston, with a screenplay by Christopher Christo-pher Fry, "The Bible" is the first film to tell in continuous the tremendous scope of the production, Producer De Laur-entiis Laur-entiis had his staff of creative artists working for three years on the research and writing before even a camera turned. sequence the stories of The Creation, Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, Noah and the Flood, the Tower of Babel, the Destruction Des-truction of Sodom and the Saga of Abraham. The cast of the film includes George C. Scott as Abraham; Ava Gardner as Sarah; Stephen Steph-en Boyd as Nimrod, King of Babel; Richard Harris as Cain; Peter O'Toole as the Angel of the Lord; John Huston as Noah; No-ah; Michael Parks as Adam. The film also introduces TJlla Bergryd as Eve. In bringing the Bible to the screen, De Laurentiis, Huston and Fry were determined from the outset to avoid set patterns of past Biblical films that were conceived only with isolated stories. Their goal was to portray por-tray Biblical text and characters charac-ters with fidelity and in the hope that the story of mankind's man-kind's beginnings would have significance for people of the modern world. Because of the subject and |