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Show uu 'Four Horsemen,' Supreme as Film, Now at the Alhambra An epic tale of surging passion sweeping from the wide plains of th'" Argentine through the fascinating frlv olitles of pre-war Paris Into the blazing blaz-ing turmoil of tho German Invasion of Northern France was unfolded thb afternoon at the Alhambra theatre. The picture, adapted by June Mathii-from Mathii-from the great novel of Vicente Blase Ihajies, has Intensified the dramat ! force of the original story and thi- i:ftcrnoon it held ih spectators! breathless!) Intent as with swift, suit strokes it hammered home the terroi and grandeur of the war and a greul deal of the humor and light-hearted gait) thai ke"pt bubbling UP through the turgid stream of struggling hu manlty when the world was In arms The director, Rex Ingram, has succeeded suc-ceeded in concentrating the gr Struggle In a series of unforgettabl' i i tun s that flash out the quinteeseno of life at white heat. He makes U' see above the struggle the awesonu figures of the four horsemen Conquest. War Famine and Death, prophesii by St John In the Book of the A;j ) calypse, charging Into our cry hearts And through, It all Is the deeply human, hu-man, deeply moving spectacle of In tensely real people In their baffled at tempts to readjust themselves to th ! demands of war days. In this picture .the war lg realized on a gigantic, scale with a greatness of Imagination that dwarfs all other ambitious attempt 1 that tho screen has seen. |