EVERYBODY’S
“THE KING OF KINGS” The reproduction of the Hill of Calvary for Cecil B. de Mille’s “The King of Kings,”* now being shown at Everybody’s Theatre, and the convulsion of nature that coincided with the death of Jesus, constituted an enterprise needing skill. t Calvary, or Golgotha, was a bare hill outsido the walls of Jerusalem, the word Golgotha meaning “the place of a skulL” On this execution hill, seen far and wide by the assembling throngs, the crosses of condemned prisoners were set up. From the top of Golgotha the towers and turrets of Zion can bo seen across the intervening valley. Looking the other way, the ascent to the summit is difficult, ravine-streaked, and cluttered with boulders. Thousands of people of all kinds, perched on the rocks or found footing in the crannies to see the sentences carried out. When the earthquake shook and rent the hill and the hurricane and lightning broke out of a darkened sky, the panic-stricken spectators fled in every direction.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 311, 23 March 1928, Page 15
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168EVERYBODY’S Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 311, 23 March 1928, Page 15
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