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Show "A DAUGHTER OF THE GODS" COMING HERE " A Daughter of tho Cods," after six months at tho Lyric theatre, Now Yoik, and engagements at tho leading lead-ing dramatic theatres of Chicago, Washington, Philadelphia, San Francisco Fran-cisco and other large cities, comes to tho Lyric theatre of this city. This mammoth spectacle with its 22,000 peoplo, 2000 horses, and featuring fea-turing Annotto Klllermann, the most perefctly formed woman In tho world, Is said to bo a wonderful combination com-bination of romanco, mysticism, poetry, po-etry, sensation and music, with &omo of tho most romarkablo photography ever flashed on a screen. It Is a story of fairies, gnome3, mermaids, a mad sultan, a lovely princess and a handsomo prince, and shows thrilling scenes of mighty armies in battle and the burning of an entire Moorish city, built at an expense of $350,000 for this production. Many of tho scenes aro laid on the shores of tho beautiful beauti-ful Caribbean sea, whero the dashing surf and storm swept waters furnish surroundings of lndoscrlbablo gran-dour gran-dour and beauty for Miss Kellor-mann's Kellor-mann's daring and thrilling swimming swim-ming and diving. Then thero Is tho regal magnificence of tho sultan's city, with Its oriental splendor of tho harem, and its statoly palaces. Cnomeland, In which twolvo hundrod children, natives of Jamaica, appear as tho Inhabitants of a lllllputlan vlllago with a wonderful series of falls In tho background, Is another featuro of this wondorful photo drama. To provldo thchd falls a river was turned from Its course, a canal threo miles long dug by an army of workmen and tho hugo body of water thus brought to tho odgo of n seiles of ragged and picturosquo cliffs, over which It tumbled In a snowoy torrent. As many as nineteen thousand porsons appear in many of tho scenes and tho whole production shows an utter disregard for tho expenditure ex-penditure of money combined with n praiseworthy and unusunl attention tp poetic beauty and Impressive handling han-dling of tho stupendous scones of battle. The magnitude of tho enterprise enter-prise and tho caro and attention bestowed be-stowed on tho selection of tho scenes that mako up tho entertainment Is host shown by tho fact that 223.000 feet (14 miles) of film woro exposed and developed, out of which only 10,000 feet wero selected to make up tho two hours and a half of be-wtllderlng be-wtllderlng beauty and unusual novelty nov-elty that Is at present delighting au-dlonces au-dlonces all ovor tho land from coast to coast. |