LIBERTY THEATRE HAS JEWISH DRAMA.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17854, 24 May 1926, Page 7

LIBERTY THEATRE HAS JEWISH DRAMA.

RUDOLPH SCHILDKRAUT STARS IN “ HIS PEOPLE.” Representing a type too rare these days, and figuring in a human drama that comes like a draught from high Olympus after the mediocre fare so often set before us, Rudolph Schildkraut appears in "His People” at the Liberty Theatre, this week. This story, straight from the heart of a writer who recognises only the noblest emotions of man, echoes a hundred different heartbeats of the average man and woman, for whom, primarily, it is written: a story that is a simple, yet vibrant, chronicle of the dramatic developments of a plain family. Its theme, its plot, its central idea, is one that confronts many men these times—is a man ever justified in denying his people if a recognition of them would bar his progress in the commercial world? Around this question has been evolved a tense drama, wonderful in its sympathy, delicate, yet full of power in its emotional scenes, scintillating with a whimsical Yiddish humour that brings the happy,

spontaneous laugh, though eyes may have been blinking away the tears a moment before. Though tears there mav lie. there is nothing tragic nor morbid in “His People”; it is pathos, sympathy, complete psychological understanding that allow one to suffer

During the heavy easterly on Saturday, the motor-boat Kitty, belonging to Mr W. Spicer, of Scarborough, Sumner, broke from its moorings at Boat Harbour and drifted on to the rocks off' the old sea wall. In spite of efforts to recover the boat it became a total wreck in the heavy surf, the owner managing to save only the engine.