ROYAL PICTURES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 2068, 16 December 1919, Page 2

ROYAL PICTURES.

THE TKH MI’H Ob: WE WEAK.’

T!io abo\ is the special attraction at the Royal for to-morrow and Thursday, featuring Alice Joyce. As the heroine, Alice Joyce has a part which gives full play'to her appealing style of acting. The role is calculated to draw the pitying 1 sympathy of the audience, and Miss Joyce, as might he expected, draws it with every look and every move. Iter leading man, Walter McGrail, gives the finished performance of which he is capable. .Edith (Alice Joyce), a young widow, has stolen a ring from a jeweller, in order to buy milk for her baby, and limis herself in prison for a live-year term. At the end of three years she is paroled, and by the terms of the parole she must leave her boy in the orphanage for the remaining two years. She kidnaps the child, and Jinds employment in another city. There she meets Jim Roberts (Walter McGrail), and they marry. In the meantime, Mabel (Eulalie Jensen), a former fellow prisoner, has found her, and endeavours to get her to lead a wicked life. Edith gives her refuge in her house, and .Mabel, threatening to tell her husband of her past, prevails upon her to steal a large sum. of money from him. She is caught in the act by her husband and his friend, Robert Jordan (Templar Saxe), a detective- who has recognised her as the ex-convict who broke her parole. Edith’s story is then told to Jim for the first lime, and although she wins his forgiveness she insists on going back to serve out the balance of her sentence, holding that they can never have true happiness until her crime is fully expiated according to law. A good comedy', “Nearly a Rapa,” a, scenic, “Through the Nation’s Parks,” and the “Weekly Review,” complete a high-class programme.