ENTERTAINMENTS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 1310, 13 October 1914, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

ROYAL PICTURES. At the Royal to-morrow night, Julius Knight’s greatest Australasian success, “The Prisoner of Zenda,” will be screened. It is the story of a man who was a king, and a king who was a man. Romance, blended with the thrill of danger and doubt; loyalty, emphasised by surrounding treachery and intrigue; the impulse of daring and the ecstasy of hazard ; the tense struggle of souls in combat ; the battle between desire and denial; reckless ambition and the misery of its climax ; the power of good and the force of evil; the woe and war of hearts; the triumph of duty over vice, hate, and even love ; and throughout all, the conflict ot emotions and events, the sympathetic influence of a woman’s teuderne°s; and FateFate and a woman's heart, a woman’s heart and its hungercombine to make “The Prisoner of Zenda” the most popular of all modern romances. MUNICIPAL PICTURES. The star drama, “A Day of Days,” to be screened at the above pictures to-morrow evening is one of the most remarkable photodramas ever filmed, being the Famous Player’s most recent and most startling success. Theother items of the programme are:— Pathe Gazette (topical) Winter Sports in Sweden (scenic), A Boardinghouse Romance (comic), Fresh Water Aquarium (educational), and Closed at Ten (comic).