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remorse that he throws down the thirty pieces of silver before the High Priest and goes out and hangs himself.
The miracles, the gentle care for children and for the lowly are shown in picture after picture. There is dramatic force in the driving of the money-changers from the Temple wliere our Lord appears as a strong man filled with righteous resentment. And so the drarua reaches its climax in Gethsemane, in the meeting place of the Sanhedrin, in the hall of Pilate's palace and finally, on Mount Calvary.
Immense pains have been taken to make each character vivid and individual. Thus Peter, destined to be the leader of his brethren after his Master's death, is shown as a gigantic, impulsive fisherman, tender of heart and infirm of purpose until the bitter trial of the night when he denied his Master thrice. The boy Mark is eager, inquisitive, tremendously interested. Matthew is the man of affairs, who, even when called to higher things, does not quite lose a certain shrewdness. And the Virgin Mary is a figure of infinite dignity and love and in the end, of awful sorrow.
It is, of course, in portraying Our Lord Himself that the producer has had to face and overcome the greatest difficulties. No artist can hope quite to represent the greatest of all figures, be he painter, poet or actor. But tiiis may at least be said, — that in the King of Kings the principal part has been played reverently and beautifully and without even a single unworthy suggestion of the qualities of the Saviour of the world. Orchestra and efifects. No dialog.
Running time 112 minutes — Rental $24.00. (Extra rental during Lent.) (Pub. S6, PB, WDS, P, H. see page 7).
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