AMUSEMENTS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 7 December 1928, Page 2

AMUSEMENTS.

COSY THEATRE. To-night. is tlu‘ last night in Masterton of tile epoch-making ‘•('hang.’’ Patrons are advise-l on no account to miss this great picture. In ‘•Chang,’’ Merian C. Co;,per and Ernest Shoedsaek have given the world a picture that is nothing short of marvellous. The whole of the picture is played in the jungle. It is the soul of the wild. Here is a little family—father, mother, children, and an almost human gibbon monkey. They carve from the jungle a. tiny clearing, build a house on stilts, to be protected from wild animals. It is all marvellous melodrama, a human story, set against the pitiless jungle background, with intimate glimpses of wild animals that baffle description. With little or no acting, the people who act in “ Chang” have produced a picture which for thrills, romance, realism, far surpasses the studio-made picture. The dense jungles of Siam provide the stage; the trees and twining creepers; the leopards and tigers and elephants, the changing scenes. Before the most ancient civilisation arose, before the first city in the world was built, before man trod the earth—then, as now, there stretched across vast spaces of farther Asia, a great green threatening mass of vegetation—the Jungle. Then, as now, man hacked his way in _ the jungle, defying Nature, braving the dangers of the wild beasts. Time and again, fields, towns, great Empires were hacked out of the Jungle. They are forgotten. Always the Jungle rose in wrath and swallowed them. Such is the tale of ‘‘Chang.” A story of man’s fight for existence, a fight that is life itself, stark, real, almost unbelievable.