BRITANNIA

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 359, 21 May 1928, Page 14

BRITANNIA

“KING OF KINGS” “The King of Kings,” to be shown to-night at the Britannia Theatre, is described as being more than a motion picture. A simple story, an old story known to everyone—yet the most beautiful, the most dramatic, the most tragic in the history of the world. “The King of Kings” comes as no preachment—it simply sets down the facts—and the facts visualised are ten times more powerful than they ever could be otherwise. The story carries the audience through from/the beginning of Christ’s ministry to the momentous journey up to Jerusalem, the terrible events of the leading up to the Cross, and then to that happy Easter morn when Mary and Martha found the entrance to the tomb rolled away. No event of any importance has been omitted and the picture of Christ’s life has been treated most reverently.

One of the most famous casts ever assembled, supports Ramon Novarro and Norma Shearer in “The Student Prince,” the screen version of the famous stage play. Jean Hersholt, Edward Connelly, Otis Harlan, George K. Arthur, Gustav von Seyffertitz, Phillippe de Lacey, Bobby Mack and many others of note are in the cast. Approximately two thousand extras take part in the spectacular details of the huge production, which is scheduled for early release in New Zealand.

scented after his bath, and he made the barber put a nice wave into his hair with the tongs. Soon he added a little rouge to his cheeks, and a touch of red on his lips; and I take it that he powdered his nose. Even after Caesar had begun to make a military reputation which brought him the adoration of women and gave opportunity for any amount of intrigues, he was an affected young man, with manners' 1 and habits that did not match the role of conquering hero: His voice was rather high and shrill; his skin, at Plutarch says, was very soft and white; his walk, it seems, was odd, being perhaps of that somewhat mincing variety peculiar to the clique he had abandoned; and he had the now much burlesqued habit of running his fingers delicately through his hair. Very Old-Fashioned Moderns Elsewhere in this entertaining book, Mr. Weigall provides other surprises. It may be rather disconcerting to the Bolsheviks, as to the Bright Young People, to learn that they are not such pioneers as they suppose. Both have been anticipated, thousands of years ago; the Bolsheviks by the revolutionary Egyptian proletariat in the Tenth Dynasty, who set up a sort of Communism; and the Bright Young People by the Inimitable Livers, whose antics were the talk of Alexandria 2,000 years ago.