"Mutiny on the Bounty" at the Nanking Theatre is being confronted with such crowded houses that its success here cannot be gainsald. Yet that statement hardly covers the merits of a cinema which this hard reflecting surfaces, such as metals, pottery and especially marble. Commencing first with seenes from Frankish and Egyptian life, Alma-'Tadema later showed a strong art-impulse towards the presentation of the life of ancient Greece and Rome, and particularly the latter. To all of these subjects he brought a human interest, bringing them well within modern' feeling, and carrying them out witha charm of gentle sentiment and playful humour. There are today many who affect to despise the type of. work which Alma-Tadema did as being somewhat of a sickly Vietorianism, but for sheer artistic [merit and cunning craftsmanship the work of Alma-Tadema will still require a lot of beating.
Journal's critic commended for revisiting on the ground that it could emphatically be enjoyed even by those who had already seen it. Certainly the comments coming from all who have seen the film bear out that remark and put the production in a class by itself. Of the acting of Mr. Charles Laughton and his col-Jeagues much has been rightly. said fu warm admiration, but the chief triumph ig surely that of the ~ro-ducers who, with a really fine story at their commend, have given notable: acting a superb setting and brilliant photographic treatment. Historical ly this glimpse of the grim actualities of life in the British Navy a couple: of decades before Trafalgar is most valuable,
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