ROYAL PICTURES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2082, 27 January 1920, Page 3

ROYAL PICTURES.

The programme screened lust ni<_!'!i( will lie repeated to-night. “Secret Si riuji'S." 11l be sllnWll tomorrow nielli, which IS I llf v title nf f lit* latest' Metro play. mid in which (he it<*>■ 111 1 if al -I,nr, l Hive Tell, in seen, was adapted I'nr I lie screen from | lie successful P.rmohvay production of die same name from tlit* pen uf Kale Jordan. T-liis play deal.-- with the dramatic events which follow when a. girl of unusual heailly and charm finds that the man she has married is a smooth and unprincipled crook, who inlands lo use her allraclions lo further his own ends. She leaves him, hut Infer comes frilo his life, and is (he means of preventing a gigantic ,jewel robbery which he. has planned with his partner in crime. Love comes inli> her life again, Unis time, however, with a man worthy of her,, and the romance ends in happiness. The play id one which is calculated to excite and retain interest. The, situations are unusual, and work rapidly to a tremendous and drama tie climax, in which the star is seen to wonderful advantage. The supporting items include (he iirsl instalment of a four-part series entitled “Capturing Wild Animals in the Rocky ■ Mountains”; the Weekly Keview will he found lo lie of interest, and the Chris>iie, Comedy is bright and attractive.. As an extra, a further episode in the serial, ‘‘The Railroad Raiders,” will lie shown.