Show 7 7 pho photodrama so 80 real it fools expert many amusing remarks are heard if one lurks in the dark ot of a theatre one night at the tha astor theatre in new york a woman was heard to whisper to her seat mate 1 I wonder it they really built that ca cathedral thedral at the studio as they claim or whether it was photographed in paris and the very wise young man who had escorted her to see the hunchback ot of notre dame replied why in paris of 0 course I 1 saw the cathedral of notre dame when there during the war and these scenes are too true to life to have been made anywhere else besides it was much cheaper to send a cameraman across the water the young man was partly right it would have been much cheaper to shoot in front bt bf the original cathedral but what he know was that permission to do so could not have been obtained by anyone the spot Is too sacred to the french people in addition the settings surrounding the cathedral all had to be in the period ot of louis XI hence universal spent just to reconstruct the cathedral and all the other eight squares ol of buildings in their entirety the patrons remark however show ei how faithfully the reproduction was made critics everywhere have been astounded at the magnificence ot of the production all unit in ini declaring that 1 the production 1 is the last word in picture art it comes to the liberty theatre here on monday 1 |