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Show REAL BAPTISMS TAKE PLACE IN "HALLELUJAH" 1 One of the most unusual scenes ever recorded for a moving picture, a pro- 1 cessional march of hundreds of negroes ne-groes to baptismal services, is among, the unique details of "Hallelujah," ' Metro-Gold wyn-Mayer's all-talking ' picture, which comes Tuesday to the,' Victory Theatre. 1 The new picture, directed by King! Vidor, who made "The Big Parade," is a vivid drama of the lives of the ne- ! groes of the south. The great baptismal procession I' scenes were filmed on Church J ' Street, Memphis, Tennessee, one I of the most renowned colored set-, ; tlements in America. The huge par- j ade, an exact replica of those held at ; the famous wholesale baptisms there, was climaxed by the baptism, when ' the converts entered the river while ' the preachers exhorted the "flock." i" All the known varieties of horse-drawn horse-drawn conveyances were used in the t parade through the quaint old wood- i en buildings. Three two-horse Victor- '. ias, three six-horse surreys, four cotton cot-ton wagons and dozens of horses and buggies flocked to Memphis from ! nearby plantations, loaded with color-ji ed extras for the parade. i ' The new picture, an original by Vi- : dor, is an intimate story of the lives i and loves of the negroes of the South, I filmed largely in the Southern cotton plantations. The exteriors and the sequences, in which the old negro spir-itunls spir-itunls and "Blues" were sung by the j famous Dixie Jubilee Singers, were filmed at the studios in California. o |