ROYAL PICTURES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2098, 4 March 1920, Page 3

ROYAL PICTURES.

Now and again a problem play arrives on stage or screen which is of unusual strength and dramatic force. Such a one is seen in “Wives of Men,” the Pioneer superfeature, to be screened at the Royal to-night and to-morrow night. The star is Florence Reed, and, although she has played many memorable roles where emotional'power has been called upon, this groat story js thu iiower of her art. It is’the kind of play that makes picture-goers, and nothing that can be said can be too superlatively expressed as to the real emotional acting of the famous stage beauty. ’ The story concerns the eternal triangle, but from a fresh and unusual viewpoint. A man marries his father’s pretty ward, hut on her wedding day she finds a photograph with an inscription upon it in a woman’s handwriting, “To My Husband.” In a frenzy of tragic disillusionment the young bride decides to live alone., From that, decision, and the chain of evil consequences that follow it, spring all (he dramatic and unforscon happenings. The whole gives the impression of real life. Mention must he made, too, of the splendour of the settings, and the gorgeous nature of (he dresses and the houses of the very rich of New York. Frank Mills is a likable and understandable hero, and Granee Davidson as “the other woman,” gets everyone’s sympathy. Next Wednesday “The .KomanefV of Tarzan will be screened.