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MOVING PICTURE WORLD
January 5, 1924
The Ten Commandments
Hail! "The Ten Commandments!"
For what it is as spectacle — "The Ten Commandments;" for what it is as entertainment — "The Ten Commandments;" but above all for what it will mean to the picture industry — "The Ten Commandments."
And the last of these reasons shall be the greatest.
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It will never be possible to estimate the immense, intangible benefit that "The Covered Wagon" has brought to the industry.
It will never be possible to underestimate what "The Ten Commandments" will mean to the industry in the years to come.
Here is the most eloquent sermon ever preached, in the form of entertainment that grips the most blase; here is the answer perfect to the most stinging denunciations ever hurled at an industry's head.
"The Ten Commandments" required courage in the
making; it deserves glory in the achievement.
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We saw "The Ten Commandments" twice. And we will welcome the opportunity to see it again.
On the first occasion, with a handful of film folk, the magnitude of the prologue overwhelmed us, and we felt a slump in interest in the modern story.
On the second occasion, as part of a packed theatre, the biblical sequence aroused us to new enthusiasms, and we found the contemporary story, despite our foreknowledge of events, holding us — gripping us.
We don't attempt to analyze our own feelings. We give them to you, together with the circumstances, for what they are worth.
But remember this: When you read reviews on "The Ten Commandments" ranging from the wildest of eulogies to the pecksniffian hypercritical — "The Ten Commandments" has been built for the American mother, the American wife, the American home.
And give thanks on behalf of the industry to Cecil B. DeMille.
ROBERT E. WELSH.
Trio of Lead* in Goldwyn's Picturization of Lew Wallace's "Ben-Hur."
Kathleen Key, who will play Tizrah; George Walsh, who will enact the title role, and Gertrude Olmsted who will play Esther.
Buchowetzki to Direct
Dimitri Buchowetzki, producer of "Peter the Great" and one of the foremost motion picture directors in Europe, will direct Pola Negri in her next starring picture for Paramount, titled "Men," according to an announcement by Jesse L. Lasky.