ROYAL PICTURES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 2072, 30 December 1919, Page 3

ROYAL PICTURES.

The programme screened lasi night will he repealed (o-mglil.

Those who have read the “Boston Blackie” stories in (he lied .Magazine will welcome this striking character to the screen, and the Metro Corporation have select ml in “Boston Blaekic’s Little Pal," which will lie screened to-morrow night, one of the best of the stone-. —for it carries a strong appeal, a heart interest, as well as .excitement and thrill. With Bcr! Lylcll a- Boston,

a powerful, mysterious and unusual slow, a very strong caste id players, and a perfeei production, lids picture. rank.-, high ;iHa- rele - ases of the year. Bert L\tell is rapidly becoming one of I lie mosl popular male stars ol the -'ereen

he is virile, brilliant, clever and aitraelive; he does not pose, he lives the character he portrays. Al,- Poston Blackie, lie is the handsome, polished gent la men-crook whoso methods are startlingly sensational, as no other screen star could lie. There will also he shown another episode of the serial, “The Railroad L’aiders."

For Xew Year's Might a -peeial programme has been obtained, Ihe star Mini of which is "Lovely Mary," featuring Mary .Miles Milder. In making this, film, the Alelm Company obtained permission lo use the Stale Prison Camps in .Florida, where many interesting photographs were made. Real prisoners were fused, augmenting’ Ihe Metro play- / ors. One-of the most historic courthouses in Florida, of Colonial grandeur, Avas used in Ihe production. Jn one court room scene more than four hundred persons were employed. * ’ "