MCLEAN'S PICTURES.

Hokitika Guardian, 3 October 1924, Page 1

MCLEAN'S PICTURES.

KIIM.IXC’S GREAT LOVE ERIC, —T( )-NI(iMT. This evenin'' .Mel.ean's present lludyard Kipling’s famous love epic, “ Witlimit Benefit of Clergy.” In its ability to purify the feelings “ Without llenelit of Clergy ” is supreme. In its pi ft to endow your persona lily with a new soul thrill, it is uneipialled. In its mystery, color, atmosphere, acting, direction and presentation with music.

" Without Benefit of Clerey” stands like the Venus de .Milo, far above and beyond the masterpieces in the world’s gallery of. lofty aeeoniplishnient.

‘Thou wilt never cease to love me? Answer my kino!’’ Those were the immortal words written by lludyard Kipling and brought to life on the screen in the I’aihe production. “Without Benefit of Clergy.” “There are not many happinesses so complete.” he wrote, ‘as those that are snatched under the shadow of the sword. They sat together and laughed, calling each other openly by every pel name that could move the wrath of the gods. The cii.v below them was locked up in its own torments. Sulphur tires blamed in the streets; the conches in the Hindu temples screamed and bellowed, for the gods were inattentive in those days. In tlie gray dawn they saw t lie dead borne out through the city gates, each litter with its own little knot of mourners. Wherefore they kissed each other and shivered." Virginia Brown Faire is Ameera and Thomas Holding the British engineer. The type of players selected to portray the characters of the story are living likenesses of figures of Indian life. Viriginia Brown Faire as Ameera is typical ol the young girl of Lahore. Thomas Holding, the leading man of the produel inn, is the veritable image of the British engineer, now living in Lahore, who built the Tala dam and the Simla railway, two ol the .greatest' aehievniciits of history. Even to the most, unimportant • extra' players the tvpe.x have been selected with rare discretion and racial under-lauding. A cartoon, “Dog and the Well, pathe gazelle and the serial ••Hurricane lluteli” complete a special pregramme.