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Show .EPOCHAL EVENTS ARE FINELY PICTURED IN "THE KING OF KINGS" Spectators Easily Visualize Galilee and Judea of Jesus' Time To be transported to the ways of Galilee and the streets of Judea at a time when a Man gave to the world a great opportunity . . .To follow the path of that Man through an amazing amaz-ing series of engrossing epochal events Such is the great central theme of Cecil B. De Mille's motion picture, "The King of Kings," which rever- ently pictures the wondrous drama from the date when the world knew Him only as an itinerant preacher and the poor and afflicted hastened to Him for healing and succor. This great picture will be on view at the Orpheum Theatre for three days beginning be-ginning on Tuesday, next. Filming Began in June, 1926 Cecil B. De Mille began this great work in June, 1926. For ten months the fields of research, authorial creation, crea-tion, production and technic were kept busy. His final determination to make the picture was announced only after he had discussed the subject with leaders of public sentiment, scholars and savants, and theatre advisers. ad-visers. Representatives of the studio went to the Holy Land to study at first hand architecture and costumes and topography. Fifty acres of land were purchased adjacent to the Cecil B. De Mille studio at Culver City. Here were produced, to exact measurements, measure-ments, the scenes or locales of the Temple the Via Dolorosa the Hill of Calvary, and other scenes familiar to all who have traveled in Palestine. Great Co-operative Effort , As the work progressed it developed develop-ed into the greatest co-operative effort ef-fort that the united motion picture industry has yet achieved. The tech-I tech-I nical and architectural resources of every great California studio was placed at the producer's disposal, and eminent actors from many companies com-panies vied with one another for the - leading parts. Will H. Hays, president presi-dent of the Motion Picture Producers Produc-ers and Distributors of America, made a special trip to California to correlate the many studio activties and to bring about, in behalf of the production, favorable action by the organized social, religious and educational educa-tional institutions of the country. Fifty Featured Players There are more than fifty featured actors, including eighteen stars, in the production, of which the following follow-ing is a partial list: . H. B. Warner, Jacqueline Logan, j Dorothy Cumming, Kennetth Thom- son, Ernest Torrence, Julia Faye, Rudolph Schildkraut, Josephine Norman, Joseph Schilkraut, Victor Varconi, Robert Edeson, Majel Coleman, Cole-man, Montagu Love, George Sieg- mann, Sydney D'Albrook, William I Boyd, Sam De Grasse, Jetta Goudal, j May Robson, Bryant Washburn, j Theodore Kosloff, Josef Swickard. |
