AN OUTSTANDING Fill

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 452, 6 September 1928, Page 14

AN OUTSTANDING Fill

“UNCLE TOM’S CABir

PRIVATE SCREENING YESTERDav

A picture breathing the very of slavery on the old cotton plantatt.' “Uncle Tom s Cabin” (a masterlyT, turisation of the famous book) rva deep impression on those who privileged to see a private screein* * ranged by Mr. W. R. Hislop. the iv versal Film Company’s representati yesterday afternoon. The picture is magnificently and if there are any people who their youth, did not weep over foe Tom and little Eva, they will SUrf do so when they see this picture. Cotton fields and cakewalks, fin* c Southern families and the famo Mississippi steamboats—all are theEvery character is true to the origin* and the closest student of the old will be delighted at their interpret - tions. There are numbers of genuine negroes in the picture and. in fact, tbactor who portrays Uncle Tom v himself a negro. Little Eva is it! daintiest little girl that could possib have been found for the role. Tops - ail that the original could ever lav been, quaint and cheeky, but lovabiand the scene where she takes a floweinto Eva’s death chamber is somethin, to grip the heart of the most harden? Simon Legree and Lawyer Mark. Eliza and George, little Harry *nc Cassie, are all very well performed. Darky slavery is now nothing but a bad dream, but the old life ha** be?: marvellously re-created for this picture. Kindhearted slave-owners fckthe Shelbys and the St. Clares the* were, it is true, but the abject miser of the negroes in the slave roarkr and under such people as Legree ve; almost too terrible to remember. But if there are scenes in this picture of brutal thrashings and of slave* chained to each other, there are also scenes of enlightened homes where the slaves live in peace and happiness. “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” which will be shown shortly under the Thomas a. O’Brien management, should, without a doubt, be acclaimed as one of the fev really great pictures ever made.