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Show hi Downfall of Rome Shown in "Manslaughter," Now At Alhambra There were no photographers to record re-cord the dress and etisloms of the day when the barbarians dver threw an-Clenl an-Clenl Home. Nevertheless. Cecil 12 DeMllle as produced an historically Faithful reproduction of this fnr his latest Paramount picture "Manslaughter," "Manslaugh-ter," now playing ;U the Alhambra theatre. The episode in question is a historical his-torical cutback .which vividly depicts the descent of the barbarian hordes upon Rome. Weeks of research work on the part of the director, scenarist, and art director pr I- ed the filming of the scenes Leatrlce Joy. who Is one of !he principals 01 the modern portion ol the story, is the hostess at a lavishly lavish-ly beautiful Koman bacchanal which In Interrupted by Thomas Meighan in the role of the leader of the Goths. Lois Wilson. John Miltern .and Casson Ferguson are the other members of the notable cast who ap-' ap-' pear In this sentience. I A Strikingly realistic gladiatorial I combat Is one of the many Interesting Interest-ing features of the bacchanalian entertainment. en-tertainment. Although this episode required more than a week to film and kept m arly a thousand people I employed, It will occupy the screen 1 for only a few minutes. it is used to point a powerful lesson and serves ser-ves to draw an Interesting comparison com-parison between ancient Rome and modern America. |