PLAZA THEATRE.

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 35, 10 August 1936, Page 5

PLAZA THEATRE.

The story of the success and failure of one. of the most extraordinary figures that our colonial history has produced is told on the screen in 'Rhodes of Africa," the attraction at the Plaza Theatre. Rhodes was undoubtedly a man of remarkable ability; an empirebuilder of vision, a type of wi-.ich the nineteenth century produced many shining examples, and now that his dream has come true, although he died before his schemes wera brought to fruition, we arc' able to assess more justly the services he rendered in his efforts to creat a new empire for Britain in the country whose welfare he. had so deeply at heart. Tile fact that he died with his policy ending in apparent failure and repudiated by the Home Government made his end bitter, but the. events have been the justification of his life and work. The film traces the story of his rise to power in South Africa, and of the clash between his ideals and those of the unflinching Paul Kruger. the President of the Boer Republic. Walter Huston makes an undoubted success of the role of Rhodes, and Kruger is well portrayed by Oscar Homolka.