Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1922-12-01 | Page 12 | "Love of Pharaoh" Stirs Alhambra Patrons; Shows Again Today

"Love of Pharaoh" Stirs Alhambra Patrons; Shows Again Today Presenting one of the most magnificent mag-nificent picture subjects seen here in many months, "Th.- Loves of Pharaoh," Pha-raoh," an Ernest Lubltsch production for Paramount, was shown with unqualified un-qualified success at the Alhambra theatre last night Mr. Lubltsch. the creator of "Passion" and "Deception" has outdone himself In this remarkable remark-able production. The scenes aro laid In Egypt In the days of the Pharaohs and to say that they are massive and that as a Spectacle this picture is unrivalled, Is expressing It mildly. Nor Is the story lost in the spectacle. spec-tacle. Th- people of tho play. Pharaoh Pha-raoh Amens. the all-powerful king of Egypt, cold and cruel as the ruler Of his people, but tender and a vain supplicant for love at the feet of a free-spirited slave girl, is mad- a true character by Emll Jennings- Paul -. ner as the king of the Ethiopians Is clear and definite and contrasting. More expressive pantomime than that of these two has seldom. If ever, been l n on the screen. And the new-Austrian new-Austrian actress, Dagny Servaes, Is a handsome woman who Is also able to act. She gives the slave girl all needed need-ed vitality. Henry Lledtke, too. as tin-young tin-young Egyptian vhom the slave girl loves, gives an animated and accurate, accu-rate, performance. So there la story as well as pran- dour to "Tho Loves of Pharaoh." It in ono of tho truly exceptional works of the screen.