EVERYBODY’S
“METROPOLIS" Perhaps the most outstanding Picture ever presented in Auckland b “Metropolis,” the mighty story of a city of the future, which is now bein? shown at the Theatre. Like all great things, “Metropolis is simple in its terms. The son of thgreat money master of the city ***= one day a girl of the people, Man who has brought some of the childiet of the cramped workers for an hour-* inspection of a garden of the ifc* With dawning love for the only ben* with a soul he has seen in hi* pas:* pered life, the boy follows her to tbhuge underground city, where tfc people live close to the giant workshops, whose immense machines m* 4 ' man seem puny. His love gives hiz understanding, and he is appalled t the life of the workers. An appeal his father, Masterman, is futile. The revolt of the people follows t- r failure of Masterman tc tranquilly them by means of a mechanised hum 4l being invented by the crazy Kotwan£ who gives to it Mary's likeness. Ho* peace comes to the city through M*-*-terman’s acknowledgment that tb* old-time fable of the Belly and Members is really true, master *®- man being complementary to e***other, is finely told in a series of tonishing scenes that baffle the ination even while they stimulate it
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 402, 10 July 1928, Page 14
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221EVERYBODY’S Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 402, 10 July 1928, Page 14
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