“GRASS,” AT CRYSTAL PALACE, TELLS OF HUMAN BEINGS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18008, 19 November 1926, Page 5

“GRASS,” AT CRYSTAL PALACE, TELLS OF HUMAN BEINGS.

Jt is somewhat difficult, to refrain from lavishing praise on “Grass." On

the other hand it Is difficult to do it justice without using superlative adjectives. This story without a plot, epic without a narrative, drama without a play, movie picture without a single Hollywood star, is so absorbing and so thrilling that it must be seen to be appreciated, or even understood. Per-

haps the best effort to describe it is by the pen of a smart American writer, who states that the players in it are human beings and their beasts, herds, and flocks, and that it is from a scenario suggested by Necessity, directed by Fate, staged by .Destiny. Everybody whose imagination is stirred by records of human endeavour, by patient resolve in the face of tremendous hardships and of perils, by boundless courage, and to a lesser degree, by the life lived in a strange country, as different from life in tills Dominion as if it was on another planet, should see “Grass.” The Symphony Orchestra's programme fits admirably the great theme of the big picture.