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Here are facts and figures behind the gargantuan effort that started "The Robe” on a 13*year, $4,500,000 journey to the CinemaScope screen, the most ambitious picture ever undertaken. That $4,500,000 represents exclusively the cost of producing "The Robe,” making it one of the most expensive attractions of any year in any medium. The sweeping outdoor and the more intimate indoor sets, costing more than $1,500,000, were designed by Art Directors Lyle Wheeler and George Davis from the celebrated artist Dean Cornwell’s painings that were exhibited in leading department stores in 23 cities in the United States last spring. "The Robe,” in which 5873 persons act, represents the labor of more than 1,000 studio workers. Typical of the labor technically applied to its production are statistics bearing on the construction of a single set, the breath-taking scene showing not only Golgotha, but also the city of Jeru- salem and the hills and valleys around it. This single set, one of 31 of equal mag- nitude, required the following: 15 men over a span of three weeks brought in 55 tons of dirt used for the hill; 60 carpenters labored six weeks laying 100,000 feet of board lumber to form the base for the dirt; the plaster shop contributed 2404 man hours and used 300 sacks of casting plas- ter, 150 sacks of cement, 100 sacks of hardwood plaster, 60 tons of sand and 10 bales of fibre to create the rocks on the hill. " 'The Robe’ leaves no doubt that CinemaScope will bring millions back to the movies and create an entirely new audience.” That conclusion by The Hollywood Re- porter’s publisher-editor W.R. Wilkerson voices, perhaps the most important development of CinemaScope’s first motion picture. Certainly, box office grosses reinforce the contention. So do thousands of letters reportedly re- ceived by exhibitors from patrons—and so do the hundreds of letters theatre operators themselves have sent to this company. At the left, the awakening of love for Marcellus and Diana, who, though betrothed to the Emperor, forsakes life itself for martyred death with her lover. At right, Marcellus fights a duel with the giant Centurion of Cal- igula’s Army to save the Christians from slaughter. Never has there been such a terrifying duel enacted on screen or stage, in the opinion of critics. Jeff Morrow plays the Centurion. Morrow was one of the original 292 actors auditioned by producer Frank Ross 10 years ago when he first planned to film "The Robe.” At the time, Morrow was one of the "hottest” Broadway bets for Hollywood, but Uncle Sam got him for three years in the Army. Exactly 1,917 radio, 164 tele- vision and 20-odd stage shows after his discharge, Morrow was re-screentested and succeeded in getting the part he plays with such distinction.