The Archive · 1928

Fine Acting Throughout

out the picture they chosen as types and equally admf able in acting. Mr. Ernest To rence's St, Peter is a splendid equally vital, levi devoted, and with the makings of strength in him. Joseph Schitdkraut' judas Iscariot, accepting the igned for him by the producer, li 'a masterpiece. We particularly like the St. Matthew of Mr. Robert Edezon, the type is perfect; as was St. Thomas the doubter, played by Mr. Sydney D'Albrook. In the part of Mary Magdalene Miss Jacquelfne Logan is specially praiseworthy: fat that crisis where her task is hardest, namely the conversion scene. "But her realization of all the varying moods of this splendid part is really superb. And the Virgin Mary is played by Miss Dorothy Cumming with a restraint and. taste on which she deserves the highest praise. The Pilate of Mr. Victor Varconi is excellent, particularly his look when asking the famous question "What in truth?"—which somehow gives a human, realistic conception of the scoptical Roman noble well worth remembering. Caiaphas is well depicted by Mr. Rudolph Schildkraut, but is perhaps made unnecessarily gross; at least, one bethinks one that any modern ecclesiastic might well shrink from finding himself in similar dilemma.

'The children throughout are simply wonderful, the acting of the little blind girl is above praise. For some strange reason the programme does not give us her name. character of St' Mark, played by Scarcely inforiogis the charming

Master M. Moore.. He recalls the exquisite John the Baptist of Sir Joshua Reynolds in the Wallace,

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