Show Ah th c s- s Metro Metropolis po Us Called Called Ing Example of Cinema Excellence It If you haven't seen Paramount's marvel movie gG- gG the to to the theace Pace ace Theatre Tuesday night Tb This s sis is what the critic of The New York Evening Journal said about It Metropolis the Ithe latest production come from the UFA studios In Berlin Berlin Ber- Ber lin Is an outstanding example of cinema cinema ci- ci nema e excellence One loses control of ones one's typewriter typewriter type type- writer keys in trying to convey an Idea of the stupendous settings and the almost incredible magnificent mechanical effects The story itself Is melodramatically melodramatic melodramatic- melodramatic melodramatic-I ally moral But shortcomings of I story or actors are entirely forgotten In the photoplay Itself Metropolis Is the name of a I city of the future The shots of It are breath Towering buildings that reach to the skies with 1 streets and driveways every hundred 1 stories or so everything controlled by machinery John Masterman the builder y Is shawn wn as a soulless Individual who the entire city and Its peo- peo Dee Deep down underground are the homes of at his Workmen And as asfar asfar far up as the city Is down is his stadium where his son and his gilded gilded gild gild- ed friends take their pagan pleas pleas- ures The son becomes curious as to how his lathers fathers workmen exist and goes down Into the factories One sees huge controlling clocks workmen Identified by numbers standardized by uniforms and eW- eW clency doing their work like autom- autom atone There Is a girl one of the working cl class who preaches forgotten religion Ion In the era of at machine like ettl- ettl clency Masterman on learning this Instructs his scientist to make him hima a mae machine with the face tace and figure of 01 the the girl machine to preach his to the workmen Instead And What a scene the next one is The scientist has perfected his invention invention tion of makIng human beings out of at machinery A sort of Robot Idea In his laboratory he evolves the figure of a girl and as startling electric rays In the form torm of circles play over It one sees veins gradually forming and a human figure em emerges A gIrl who lives and breathes walks stalks dances but who however lacks 3 a l on en back page are |