“METROPOLIS” AT CAPITOL
What future lies ahead of the o, skilled worker?
This problem has agitated the miod< of Labour leaders and visionists fO- - past century or so. Fritx T the producer of ‘ Metropolis." the and marvellous motion picture whit .is coming to the Capitol Theatre tfcfe evening, attempts to show what migt happen if science and business e®e. ency were allowed “to run riot u „ individualism become stultified. He pictures a city controlled by or. man, with the workers subjugated k mere slaves, toiling far below the (vein a subterranean city artifleiai;lighted and ventilated, with the puintion of thousands of mighty machine over their heads night and day, slat ing on a ten-hour shift without hop. without ambition, without even a nanonly a number.
“The Rawhide Kid," which is asecond picture this evening, is a cotboy story starring Hoot Gibson.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 444, 28 August 1928, Page 14
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