ROYAL PICTURES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2088, 10 February 1920, Page 3

ROYAL PICTURES.

•The programme to he screened a.t the Jioyal to-night is headed by a grand story entitled “The Primitive Woman,” featuring' Margarita Fischer.' .Professor Learned, a writer on prehistoric subjects, abhors modern women, and leaves for tae mountains ,|o write a story on primitive women, as compared with the women of to-day, using as a typo of modern woman -Nan fJra.ythorpe, a young girl who surprised him with her daring dance, “The Eskimo Fling.” Nan, determined to change the Professor's views, repairs to the cabin of a woman friend, and, after donning primitive garb, rolls down a, bill, landing in front of the Professor. lie, believing that she l is a girl of nature and badly injured, lakes her to bis homo to train her. Nan does not reveal her identity, and the Professor falls in love with her. Nan’s brother, Ned, trails.her,, and she tells him of her plan. In conventional garb she visits her broiher and mother at tho hotel, and learns that the people are speaking about the Professor and his ‘‘wild girl.” Nan brings her mother and brother to the Professor’s lodge. He denies that lie is harbouring a girl of the primitive type, but then he recognises Nan, and declares that modern women are the women for him.

“The Fighting Trail” will be screened as an extra. “The Life Mask,” to be screened on Wednesday and Thursday, is essentially a- mystery play, and the building of the scenario has been so skilfully handled as to leave serious doubt in the minds of the audience regarding the final outcome until the very last scene .has been played on the screen. The unravelling of the tangled skein, a task ably discharged by the capable cast,, affords entertainment of the most inviting nature. The famous Polish star, Madame Petrova, offers a characterisation entirely different from anything' she has previously done in the films. The pic!are presents a novelty in that at the beginning, by a series •of leaders, it anticipates that Woodruffe Clay will be murdered. and shows five or six of the characters all of whom have some motive for his death, mixing thp poison—but who actually did the deed, or if he was actually murdered 1 at all, is not revealed until the last moment. “The Railroad Raiders” Avill be screened as an extra.