ROYAL PICTURES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 2040, 11 October 1919, Page 3

ROYAL PICTURES.

The management of the Royal is sparing no expense in order to get the lies! piclarcs possible to obtain. For to-nighl the star is “The Safety Curtain,” featuring the world-fam-ous Norma Tahnadge. The story briefly is as follows ; —Buck, a music hall dancer, is married to Vulcan, a strong man. A tiro breaks out in the theatre, and the safety curtain cuts off Puck's retreat. She is rescued by Captain Merryon, who carries her to his rooms. The next day Puck reads of Vulcan’s death, and consents to accompany Harryon to India. She meets Sylvester, who had known her in London. She had not told her husband that she had been married previously, and Sylvester threatens to betray her. She leaves in a terrible storm to return to the post where Marryon is located, Sylvester not'dies Vulcan, who did not perish in the tire, and Vulcan starts out to find Puck. Merryon, returning from an errand of mercy, finds a note from Vulcan demanding Puck’s return, and one from Puck begging forgiveness. Seizing a revolver, he hurries, to Vulcan just as Puck also arrives, Vulcan Ims been seized with a plague, and dies as Merryon takes Puck into his arms.

On Monday night “The Fair Pretender” will be screened. lYhcn Greek meets Greek they usually start a restaurant, but when bluff' meets bluff’ something has to go. Madge Kennedy and Tom Moore in “The Fair PretendeF’are the two bluffers, and their experience form a delightful comedy sparkling with amusing complications. To pretend to be what they are not in the best society and.get away with it is the object of bulb, and in the attempt both get considerably tangled up iu their own schemes. Lavish sellings and dainty dresses are features of the play. On Tuseday night, (lie great Fox Jilin, “The Devil’s Wheel,” will he shown.