ROYAL PICTURES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 2045, 23 October 1919, Page 2

ROYAL PICTURES.

At the Koval lu-nighl fho pro--w gramme screened last night will be > repeated. For to-morrow night, (he Mutual ' Feature, “Molly Go Get ’Em,” starring Margarita Fischer. ' will he ' screened. The tilm (ells (lie delightfully unconventional adventures of a young sister who is .misunderstood. Her sister's efforts tor matrimony were'painful but entertaining. -The night of the hall, sister couldn't go, so Molly surreptitiously borrows her dress, and leaves by way of the window, but accidents will happen in the best regulated schemes, and the car, like Ihe dis-i trict, went dry. Sooner than tarnish the family honour, Molly elected to walk - home for breakfast, 2.1 miles. Having saved the family honour, according to-her lights, she gets ten ■ days on bread and water. Her sister’s beau is a Count —Molly considers him of no account —and she discovers him removing the family pearls. She gives chase, and runs the “villain" down, and returns him to the family as a specimen. Molly’s adventures make a jolly entertain- ' menl, and the call of youth echoes through all her actions and misdeeds.

Fur Saturday- night the star turo is “Milestones.” In this the ultimatum issued by the stern and proud old man was: “My daughter must marry something better than an engineer,” thus typifying the family pride handed down to him from past generations. Being in 1914, the daughter was somewhat different in spirit to her ancestors, and declined. .-Consequently the old man received the one set-back of his life, and she got her way. The incident is significant of progress in thought, and in “Milestones” the girl had the -experience of her aunt, whose empty and loveless life was the product of family pride, against all dictates of conscience, to profit hy. ; ■ Next week; Charlie Chaplin in “A Dog’s Life.”