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Show "CABIRIA" A SENSATION Those who have remained away from the spectacle made possible by the Itala Film Company, Com-pany, following the scenario of Gabriele D'An-nunzio, D'An-nunzio, will never know what they have missed. It cannot be told in words. This series of episodes, based on the Punic wars and carrying a romance woven about the life of Cabirla, a Roman girl, is presented in a manner which makes every other great attempt in the world of the photo drama seem puny. To the layman it seems Improbable that such pictures as most of the more spectacular ones in the production could be arranged and taken, and a striking feature of the whole is the fact that during the episodes, the scenes and the action are so. varied that there is something to appeal to everyone. From a historic standpoint, though not always al-ways true, it is of deep interest to the student; it is replete with thrills for those who glory in such scenes as the eruption of Etna and the subsequent devastation, and the fight on the walls of 'Carthage; it is wonderous in its scenic pictures in the Alps, by the sea and in the tropical trop-ical gardens; and to others the story is more than all else. This city has been singularly fortunate in being able to see it so soon after Us original production, and the wonder is that there is not a demand for the pictures to remain here a month instead of a week. Nothing so pretentious pretent-ious as "Cabirla" has been attempted before in the movie world, and it will be a long time before be-fore anything more startlingly beautiful Is seen. |