EVERYBODY’S

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 336, 23 April 1928, Page 13

EVERYBODY’S

“THE KING OF KINGS” “The King of Kings” continues to attract large audiences at Everybody’s Theatre. 1 One of the most beautiful scenes in the picture is the garden with a rock-cut tomb, in which the makers of the picture, following the sacred tradition, have placed the events of the Resurrection. For many centuries learned controversy has been waged over the precise location—general opinion, however, pointing to “a garden adjoining the place Golgotha,” beyond the western or northern wall. But whether or not the traditional Holy Sepulchre be the spot—in Jesus’s day, without the walls, but now well within the city—the beauty and the newness of it when Jesus was there, are inferred from Scripture, and have been reproduced in the picture with a true vision of the glory of that first Easter. Events after the Resurrection and the Vision of the Two Marys are necessarily reduced to the Lord’s manifestation before all of the disciples. Perhaps the most touching and beautiful theme in sacred annals, this is filled with moments to inspire the highest artistry, and it is the hope of the producer that these scenes will carry their beautiful message everywhere.