ROYAL PICTURES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2078, 15 January 1920, Page 3

ROYAL PICTURES.

To-aigh!, at the Royal. the star item is “Lend Me Your Name,” a Metro five-act feature. Briefly, the story is a tale of traded identities, in which Harold Lockwood is seen at his best. Rather than live with his domineering wife, who is coming from England to join him,‘Lord Gilleigh, a henpecked dyspeptic, resolves to commit suicide. Just its he is about to go through with his rash plan he discovers an intruder in his dining room rapaciously making away with a hearty meal. The stranger bears a close resemblance to the nobleman, and this fact gives the Earl a better idea of escaping Sophronia, his wife. He makes the porch-climber comfortable, and then .proposes that they change places. The intruder, impressed with the thought of living in luxury, and ignorant of Sonhro’nia, accepts the •.reposition. Complications fMVwa. piick succession, and become ire-re perplexing when the Earl and Ellis, his double, meel the same girl. One of (he most charming personalities of the screen to-day is that of dainty Mary Miles Minter, and her role in “Beauty and the Rogue,” to he screened to-morrow night, adds to the laurels that already adorn this young brow. A fine piece of characterisation in the, play is Oral Humphreys' “Slippery” Bill Dorgan, plain crook and burglar. It is a vivid and lifelike interpretation of an inveterate thief and rascal struggling against temptation In justify the trust placed in him by a young girl. He couldn’t reform, simply because it wasn't in him'to dosso, but'be made a good try all the same. The story is attractive and well produced. On Saturday the great Australian drama, “The Lure of the Bush,” wijl be shown.