"FROM MANGER TO CROSS."

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1936, 19 December 1913, Page 3

"FROM MANGER TO CROSS."

. —9 — Biblical Biographfl, Ltfl., announco' a season, commencing at tho Town Hall' on tho afternoon of Boxing Day, when they .will present production "From Manger to C'rosS." it is claimod tho film cost tho Kalem Company £20,000 to produce, and tho Australian and New Zealand rights £3000. .Enormous success, it is said, has met tho picture wherever shown, and tho picture is at tho present moment being reproduced at the Albert Hall, London, after a record run at tho Queen's Hall. Id Melbourne over sixty portrayals wero given in the city, and it- is still being presented in the surrounding districts, thereby far exceeding, all previous records. 1 Tho Rev. J. B. Sharp, who witnessed a private exhibition to thu clergy in Adelaide, wrote an appreciative no to on it, and remarked incidentally: ''I I doubt whother yesterday I should have accepted your kind invitation to this first portrayal (which now, to me, is an object of praiso and admiration), had not my early and strong prejudice been tempered by thfc recollection of tho Churches' midcentury miracle and Passion Play, and the more modern, but well-established pageant of Ohcr-Ara-roerg.au, and the quite recent Anglican venture at .Fulham Park. My fears a? to the general scheme were allayed at the outset- by tho devotional and reverent preservation of those singularly suggestive and difficult features—the Annunciation and the Nativity—of the first unfolding of tho Gospel story. Besides tho care and caution displayed in the delicate features of the Nazareth and Bethlehem groups all else made up a realistic ajid instructive panorama, and with all so reverent and devotional m character as to leave iio room for. the ] most fastidious to complain. ...