EUCHARISTIC CONGRESS

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 75, 20 June 1927, Page 13

EUCHARISTIC CONGRESS

AT TOWN HALL “A super-picture” is the way Carl Sandburg, of the “Chicago Daily News,” classifies the official motion picture of the Eucharistic Congress, which will be presented under the auspices of his Eminence George Cardinal Mundelein at the Town Hall on Wednesday and Thursday. William J. Clark, in the “Chicago American,” had this to say: “So realistically did it grasp the audience that at its close the thousands of men and women burst into the ‘Te Deum.’ ” In the “Chicago Daily Tribune,”. James O’Donnell Bennett says it is “a series of tableaux richly fraught with poetry, splendour and spirituality.” The critic of the "Boston Post” says it is well nigh perfect in technical skill, clear, gigantic, enthralling and beautiful in the extrenje “holding the audience spellbound to the last.” It is “worthy to go down in the history as an unusual achievement,” says the “Boston Traveller.” Roscoe McGowen. in the “New York Daily News,” concluded an enthusiastic review by saying: “It is a remarkable record of a remarkable gathering and well worth seeing.” Palmer Smith in the “Evening ■World” said: “More effective than I thought possible.”