THE PASSION PLAY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 204, 14 September 1903, Page 2

THE PASSION PLAY.

IE Theatre Royal on Sundny evening s packed with ot e of the -most atten- , ■e auUor.ces that hsß ever been itmbl d there, and during the uniiog of the etiriirig pictures repre- j j uting the Amruerg u P.t sion ■y, 'he vast nuli nc* w.ss enthralled .rh i s sublimity. P ofo:8 r K 1m 'lit !d the ol), tld, story i*> a quia", verential •• ay, as the animated pic . (S appeared on the screen. None •esent could fail to be deep'y im essod with the rf presentation of the or.d £C3n<B as enacted by the Ba :rian peasants. It brought hotm to , ie audience with singular force the ithos of that divine tragedy which ok placs on the threshold of th' hristim era, and came an a ose of tj a day sot apart for D vin orsMp. There was a singular and ® ignitic charm in the pictures wh'C ichained the audience, while to re eve the tension there were several jpropriate and henutifully illustrated Vl )vtgj, an ongai which thr-ro was on imposed by Professor Knm:uit, <- n ' !l-d "The Goo! B ok," '-iiich m,t ith tspecial favour. Mr. Wal'ei 0 .ndersui-. and Mi s McElone rend -r-'' an voeul pirt of ihe enter .ninmeii 'ith much skill and in exeell nt taite. 'o witness this wonderful Pa«ion Pla> tits JUivaiian home, fall.t bat ti the ocd fortune of comparatively few, a'i<* " ■j iPj therefore, a de p debt of gratitud hat we owd to science for providing 8 he Oinema-ograph to reproduce here P ne of the grandest and most soul- 6 '.irriog dramas th»t the world has seen. 8 .'hit such a Vagi throng aesmbbd to ® /itne a this exhibition speaks well for f he community, and Profe a sor KirHint should be gratified that his thril- 8 ing pi.:tur s mot wi.h euch universal 1 ippieciatioa.