From the Woodland, CA Daily Democrat, Friday, December 31st, 1915 :
In exactly one-tenth of a second you are dreamed back three thousand years and ushered into the royal room of Amenset, a Pharaoh's daughter, where she sits enthroned in all the glory and wonder of a glittering Cleopatra.
Amenset is tired of splendor-- tired of glory. Ani, the wise man of the desert, is sent for.
He gives her two potions. The first potion will make the one who quaffs it Amenset's slave in a love that has never been surpassed. The second is a potion of a death-sleep-- that will last three thousand years.
The fair princess drinks the second potion, drops to her knees-- and sinks away into her age-long sleep.
Three thousand years later Geoffrey Lascelles, an American, is presented with an Egyptian Mummy. The potion of the ancient wise man of the desert has done its work.
The beautiful daughter of the Pharaoh awakes-- shakes off her grave clothes, and awakens Geoffrey Lascelles.
Stunned and mute with surprise, Lascelles finally endeavors to care for her. He is struck with her and her beauty, but only the night before he has announced his engagement to Violet Manning.
The princess is discovered in his quarters. Violet Manning meets her. The princess rages-- and serves Geoffrey the love potion.
There are seven reels of wondrous spectacles. There is the glory and pomp of the Ancient East. There is the sparkle and dash of the modern. Picturesque and strikingly original-- this wonderful Vitagraph Blue Ribbon Feature marks a new step toward film interest and film perfection.
From the Commonwealth, Scotland Neck, NC, Friday, Nov. 10th, 1916:
"THE DUST OF EGYPT" A story of Egyptian Mythology cunningly devising a love story in which the love portion is quaffed by a daughter of the Pharaoh, by which she sinks into a sleep that lasts for three thousand years, until, awakened by Geoffrey Lascelles, an American, the love that she craved in her Egyptian home of splendor is given to him in all the ardor of an imperious nature.
The modern man, struck with her beauty, is fascinated by the oriental princess, but, remembering his pledges of one of his own class he refrains from his desire to possess the Egyptian. The princess is later discovered in Lascelles' quarters by his fiancee: a scene ensues, and the love portion, that will make him madly in love with the princess, is administered, and with a final crucial situation a seven reel picture closes, that is spectacular in the extreme in its glory and pomp of the ancient east, enhanced by the ardent love scenes of the Egyptian woman for a modern man, is one of the great pictures shown here. This will be at the Palace Theatre Tuesday night.
In exactly one-tenth of a second you are dreamed back three thousand years and ushered into the royal room of Amenset, a Pharaoh's daughter, where she sits enthroned in all the glory and wonder of a glittering Cleopatra.
Amenset is tired of splendor-- tired of glory. Ani, the wise man of the desert, is sent for.
He gives her two potions. The first potion will make the one who quaffs it Amenset's slave in a love that has never been surpassed. The second is a potion of a death-sleep-- that will last three thousand years.
The fair princess drinks the second potion, drops to her knees-- and sinks away into her age-long sleep.
Three thousand years later Geoffrey Lascelles, an American, is presented with an Egyptian Mummy. The potion of the ancient wise man of the desert has done its work.
The beautiful daughter of the Pharaoh awakes-- shakes off her grave clothes, and awakens Geoffrey Lascelles.
Stunned and mute with surprise, Lascelles finally endeavors to care for her. He is struck with her and her beauty, but only the night before he has announced his engagement to Violet Manning.
The princess is discovered in his quarters. Violet Manning meets her. The princess rages-- and serves Geoffrey the love potion.
There are seven reels of wondrous spectacles. There is the glory and pomp of the Ancient East. There is the sparkle and dash of the modern. Picturesque and strikingly original-- this wonderful Vitagraph Blue Ribbon Feature marks a new step toward film interest and film perfection.
From the Commonwealth, Scotland Neck, NC, Friday, Nov. 10th, 1916:
"THE DUST OF EGYPT" A story of Egyptian Mythology cunningly devising a love story in which the love portion is quaffed by a daughter of the Pharaoh, by which she sinks into a sleep that lasts for three thousand years, until, awakened by Geoffrey Lascelles, an American, the love that she craved in her Egyptian home of splendor is given to him in all the ardor of an imperious nature.
The modern man, struck with her beauty, is fascinated by the oriental princess, but, remembering his pledges of one of his own class he refrains from his desire to possess the Egyptian. The princess is later discovered in Lascelles' quarters by his fiancee: a scene ensues, and the love portion, that will make him madly in love with the princess, is administered, and with a final crucial situation a seven reel picture closes, that is spectacular in the extreme in its glory and pomp of the ancient east, enhanced by the ardent love scenes of the Egyptian woman for a modern man, is one of the great pictures shown here. This will be at the Palace Theatre Tuesday night.
