ROYAL PICTURES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 2037, 4 October 1919, Page 3

ROYAL PICTURES.

The star picture at the Royal tonight is the Goldwyn feature, “Thirty, a Week,” in which Toni Moore makes his first appearance as a star under the Goldwyn banner, and his delightful debonair style and Irish humour are entirely suited to the part'of Dan the handsome,chauffeur,, who elopes with the daughter of his employer. The car developed engine trouble, partly caused by the girl surreptitiously■ securing a pin from the carburettor, which forces them to spend the night out in the moonlight alone. Her angry parent insists that a mere chaulleur could not compromise his daughter, but she, having more than a passing .foible for Dan’s attractions, insists that she is compromised, whereupon Dan immediately claims her as any honourable man would, and takes her away Jo be married, and thence home to his mother. How the girl’s family, aided by a wealthy and un•scrupuhuts admirer, endeavour to get her away from, her husband, and how in the end love triumphs, and the plucky young chaulleur is received with a hearty welcome by the family of his wife, after passing through a period of vicissitudes, will prove entertaining and amusing. Dan is a real Irishman, and with thaluck of the Irish comes out on to]) all round. A thrilling motor race lakes place, in which Tom Moore gives an.exhibition worthy of a professional racer. The settings are distinctive of American society..

On Monday night the spectacular costume drama, “The Eternal Sin, will he screened. In adapting Victor Hugo’s magnificent drama, “Lucrelia Borgia,” to the screen, the story has been deprived of its most objectionable features. The favourite part of the tragedy queens of fifty years-hack, the revival ol the character in a new form in the film feature ‘‘The Eternal Sin’ is one to be commended. The screen version contrasts her one virtue, motherlove, with only one of her many vices, cruelty, and shows that in spite of her. unspeakable crimes, love for her child was the strongest emotion of her nature. Florence Reed plays the lady with a penchant for poisons, and gives a rendering that is nothing short of magnificent. k The support is admirable throughout, and the staging is on a scale of resplendence that makes it a unique pro due. 11 o in^.