EVERYBODY’S

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 407, 16 July 1928, Page 14

EVERYBODY’S

LAST 3 DAYS OF “METROPOLIS” Every now and again from out the vortex of melodrama and sentiment created by the constant stream of pictures flowing from the studios of the world emerges a film equipped with qualities to make it stand out from its fellows. Such a picture is “Metropolis,” which will be shown for three more days at the Everybody's Theatre. It is a futurist fantasy emanating from the U.F.A. studios, which have turned out quite a number of remarkable pictures in the past year or so. “Metropolis” is a presumably typical city of a hundred years hence, when mechanical achievement has made strides as huge again as those made during the past century. Gigantic buildings, beside which Chicago's biggest skyscraper would be dwarfed into insignificance, rear themselves in stately grandeur to incredible heights. Graceful suspension bridges wind between the buildings, tier on tier, hundreds of feet from the ground, avenues for the city’s traffic. Airplanes thread their way in and out, passing over a train here, a line of motor-cars there. At night the city is bright with dazzling electric rays, which, ever moving* give it added beauty.