THE KING’S

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3599, 11 October 1920, Page 4

THE KING’S

WEDNESDAY,

“ON OUR SELECTION.”

Raymond Longfords great Australian picture has won laurels of fame everywhere it has been shown. The Wellington Times gives the following glowing "report in its columns;-*— '*• The King’s Theatre was packed last evening when the initial presentation of the E. J. Carroll motion-picture a'daptation of Steele Rudd’s famous Australian bush story, "On Our Selection, ’ ’ provided rminense entertainment for over two hours. It is nowadays almost an anachronism to draw comparisons between Australian and American film productions regarding technical efficiency and photographic quality, which may be construed as encouraging to the producers in the Commonwealth. The Australian motionpicture has long since attained a degree of perfection that places it in the front rank of (the world’s best cinema works. “On Our Selection” has never been eclipsed in technical and photographic excellence, and the story admirably fencls itself to the silent enactment of the screen. The piece was filmed “on the spot”; those Australians who were present evening, and there were evidently many, could not but admire the true bush . atmosphere which pervaded the comedy. The massive gum-trees frequently shown, the little slab bouse, the • tiny selection wrested from Ithe wilds by sinewy arms and indomitable hearts, were all so characteristic that the Rudd family appeared to actually live® their parts. There is an abundance of irresistible humour that compelled roars of laughter, nolt hunxour of the slap-stick, laugh-at-any-rate order, but quite unstrained and natural. Yet underlying the story there is a trace of pathos in the lives depicted; for there are the hearit-breaking tri:v« of the Rudd family in facing the calamitous drought and destructive bush fire. Thus one’s swmpathies go out to those heroes and heroines 'in the inferior of Australia to whom an apt tribute is paid in the words of the dedication: “To you who gave our country birth; to the memory of you whose names whose giant enterprises, whose deeds of fortitude and daring were never engraved on tablet or tombstone.

The Plan is now open at Sherwin’s