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CAN A RELIGIOUS MOTION PICTURE CURE THE SICK?
By Rosa Rezlly
DECORATIONS FROM 'THE KING OF KIKGS"
N Africa the game trails are worn down into the veldt like giant ruts. No one animal made these but many upon many through the centuries. Why? Because the trail led to the water hole.
The motion picture has, through twenty years grown more and more important, more perfect, more a part of our life. Why? Because this art is leading us to Beauty and to Truth, to Religion and to Faith. When Herbert Brenon made Peter Pan he made the pathway of Beauty plainer to others. When John S. Robertson made "Sew timental Tommy", De Mille the "Ten Commandments", Fred Niblo, "Ben Hur", and King Vidor "The Big Parade", they too were blaring the trail. It has always been this way; that a man first comes to believe, then he develops an art to express his belief. Where there is no religion there is no art, but where there is truly an artist, he will find his moments of grandeur in the expression of his religious convictions. The savage's tom-tom was an obeisance to his gods. The earliest of primitive dances was a form of worship; the paintings of the primitive painters were to glorify the beauty of the Madonna.
So through all the ages; and today the motion picture follows this fundamental law. Motion pictures have reached their highest stage in telling the story of Christianity. In "Ben Hur", in "The King of Kings", in the "Miracle Man", this new art reveals again the ancient truths; these truths that no man may measure, but to which all men must bow.
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