AMUSEMENTS.
EVERYBODYS PICTURES.
“THE KING OF KINGS.”
.TO-NIGHT AND TUESDAY
For generations J,hc world has hungered for • tins. Truth:—the Truth in a form better understood by the mutlitude, and it comes at last in the most spectacular of photplays-—The King of Rightly has “The King of Kings’’ been ucyF&i mod tfyg. Miracle of Art—'The Supreme 'Gift 'to Humanity It is colossal in its in«gnitwdc-~niajcs-tic in.its presentation—the consummation of man’s highest ideals. Sufficient alone is this statement to convey the fact that tfie film industry has achieved the greatest thing in history—given to the world nothing that can ever be equalled. Nothing so spectular, so onormus, so majestic, has, ever reached the motion picture screen before, and neither we nor the generations to come will ever see,',any tiling so indescribably beantifnl as “The .King of Kings.’’ With its release in Australia, the industry lias reached (pinaele of motiu picture artY “The King of Kings” is questionably proof positive that art and beauty can, - and does, move with the times. In-this age of mechanical '-wonders.,, atid commercial bustle, we have found time to pause and lifting a perfect gem from a crown of Archaic grandueiy present it to a world drab and beautiful in its modernity. So “The King of Kings” goes to the people with/ the whole of the motion picture industry guarding it against flnmboyancy and stifling petty criticism. It is the crown ing effort of the maii who fought down all, prejudices, left no stone unturned to' make the, perfect motion picture It is the l;.Vs work oT Cecil B. de Mille and a moment to the industry’s highest ideal's;:-.-. - This great masterpiece will be again shown op'iTuesday night. Ihe prices tonight are ciycle. 2s stalls Is Gd,. children under 12 fid.
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Hokitika Guardian, 4 March 1929, Page 3
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293AMUSEMENTS. Hokitika Guardian, 4 March 1929, Page 3
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