VIBRANT PRINTING FROM INTER-WAR ALEXANDRIA

Three programmes advertising film and opera offerings two the local and international community in Cairo. The theatres are the American Cosmograph, Iris and Chantecler. The programmes are refreshingly multi-lingual to cater to the international community in Alexandria. Across the programmes, adverts and blurbs are written in French, English, Arabic, Greek and Italian.

Curiously, each of the shows being advertised focuses on female representation. American Cosmograph advertises ‘Fleur des Bois,’ starring Dorothy Dalton whilst Chantecler offers the Italian film ‘Goodbye youth,’ written by Alexandra Camacho and Nino Oxilla.

Meanwhile, the Iris advertises showings of the film ‘Woman or the eternal temptress.’ Poignantly (and possibly placing it on a better standing than the title suggests), the film concludes when the narrative ‘switches back to the modern days with the philosopher of the prologue discovering that the great European war had revolutionised the modern woman.’