ROYAL PICTURES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 2041, 14 October 1919, Page 2

ROYAL PICTURES.

William Fox’s latest photoplay, ‘‘Six-shooter Andy,” with Tom Mix as tin; shir, will bo presented at the Royal to-night. This, photoplay deals with life during the gold rush, days. The scenes are laid in the town of Bannack, Nevada, as they were sixty odd years ago, and the story is said To lie based on fact. This town is ruled over by a sheriff who is in reality a desperado, and who uses the cloak of the law to cover the ads of his gang, who kill and rob. Comes into this town one Andy Crawford, the character played by Tom Mix. His sense of .justice, his quick brain and his quicker eye, guided by much courage, soon change conditions from badness to decency. He saves Su.sa,n'Alienin' (Min’d Marker) from the sheriffs clutches, and, aided by her eight brothers and sisters, wins her heart.

To-morrow night the Metro feature, ‘‘The House of Gold,” will he screened. The story deals with a yomig man who, through the lies and machinations of her" mother and of a wealthy suitor, marries Ihe wealthy man, believing it will save her lover from prison. She becomes disgusted with her husband's debauches and disregard of conventions. The lover returns, and later the husband disappears after a struggle with his twiiPhrother, who escapes from an insane, asylum, in which the brother is murdered. The wife is tried for the supposed murder of her husband, but is acquitted, and is just about to be married to I lie hero when the hu.-band re-appears in the guise of the twin brother, and meets his death in a. struggle with the hero, enabling the couple finally to find happiness.