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‘The Demons of Meretseger’

Genevieve Gauntier Liggett (1885-1966)

Gene Gauntier and the Kalem Company, Old Luxor Hotel, 1912

Actress & screenwriter who during three months of 1912 appeared in or wrote
the scripts for 15 silent movies set in and around Luxor 12.1

“We arrived late at night and in the morning a devastatingly beautiful scene met our

eyes. The Luxor Hotel has, the oldest and largest palm garden of Egypt, scattered
about the garden were white villas with red tiled roofs which could be engaged for

large parties. The one we selected had been the home of Cecil Rhodes shortly
before his death and was just large enough for our company. The walls were two
feet thick and the interior cool. At the back of the house in a separate building were

our bathrooms to which we ran to in our bathrobes when no one was looking.
Adjoining the gardens were the delicately beautiful ruins of Luxor [Temple].”

Gene Gauntier, ‘Blazing the Trail’, Woman’s Home Companion, 1929

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