JACK LONDON’S STORY.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1541, 20 April 1916, Page 3

JACK LONDON’S STORY.

“THE SEA WOLF.”

On Easter Monday and Tuesday what is without doubt the most superboreation ever screened, will be on view at the Town Hall in Jack London’s masterpiece, “The Sea Wolf,” 7,000 ft. in ength depicting the almost impossible. One of the original stories that has ever come from the invincible pen of Jack London. A ferry boat sinks in San Francisco harbour, the passengers all perish but Humphrey van Weyden, an art critic. He is picked up by The Ghost, a sailing vessel commanded by Wolf Larsen, a man of primitive brutalities. He is compelled to become cook’s scullion, and the story merges into an account of the development of character under extraordinary conditions—a man of brain power, fastidious, cultured, a last product of the twentieth century, under the commands of espionage of rampant brutality. It would seem that this atmosphere would require the nerve of a strong man to withstand, and yet the author forces into it a lovely woman, creating thereby one of the most beautiful love stories known in fiction. A strangely seasoned narrative acquiring in the telling a fascination which the reader cannot escape. Owing to the enormous success of this marvellous picture, patrons are advised to book their seats early to avoid disappointment.