A scene from the 1926 film THE MAGICIAN starring Paul Wegener as "Oliver Haddo," an occult magician based on Aleister Crowley, seen below in black. Actress Alice Terry is here introduced by Haddo to Pan during a drug hallucination sequence.

W. Somerset Maugham wrote the novel The Magician (1908) upon which this film was based; it was loosely based on the life of Aleister Crowley. (Crowley later wrote a damning review of the book, accusing Maugham of plagiarism from other occult works). (Silent and Pre-Code Horror)
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#OTD 1923, Dublin's La Scala Theatre was showing The Conquering Power (US: Metro, 1921), directed by Rex Ingram and starring Rudolph Valentino and Alice Terry, based on Balzac's novel Eugénie Grandet. Images: Freeman's Journal, IMDb and Wikipedia. #EarlyIrishCinema1923 #TheConqueringPower #RexIngram #RudolphValentino #AliceTerry