"RHODES OF AFRICA."

Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 32, 6 August 1936, Page 5

"RHODES OF AFRICA."

Plaza Theatre' Tomorrow.

-The screen, it has frequently been stated, does not hold up the mirror1 to hie. Whether this is true or not, nobody can witness the screen story "Rhodes of Africa," portraying Rhodes's career in South Africa without recognising the producer's unswerving faithfulness to truth in the character of the great pro-consul. The veterans of the South African War who lougnt in a country where his name was con-stantly-heard, where his influence has left its indelible imprint, and where his spirit was everywhere in the land cannot see this picture, opening tomorrow at the Plaza Theatre, without paying tribute to the achievement Sf the Fox-Gaumont Film Company. Rhodes was a man of whom it may well be said that he builded better than he knew. ... As a dreamer, as a man of action, an architect of nationhood shaping the ends of Empire, he is faithfully delineated in this study. Rhodes as a man subject to all the frailities of the flesh which led him at the zenith of his powers into errors, attacked by nis enemies who were legion, feared and hated by the Boers, distrusted by politicians in England, watched care.lully by at least two great Powers in Europe, held unflinchingly to his course, and died at the very moment the goal he had set for himself was in sight. The picture does more than tardy justice to Oom Paul Kruger, whose love of country, singje-minded-ness of- purpose, and unfailing courage in time's of acute stress must at least make this and succeeding generations pay their meed of praise to one, 'who despite his somewhat puritanical outlook in a progressive world, is worthy to be called a patriot. The picture is well-balanced, the photography is excellent, and the human interest is maintained throughout.