ROYAL PICTURES

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2124, 6 May 1920, Page 3

ROYAL PICTURES

‘'Sylvia On a Spree,” to be screened to-night, is quite the most captivating, unusual .screen feature in ■which the delightful stage and .screen star, Emmy Wehlen, has yet been seen. Miss Wehlen plays the part of Sylvia Fairponts, a society girl, who has been sheltered from all

knowledge of harm. She longs to see a little of “real life.” Fate brings to her Jack Bradley, and the two become engaged on the condition that he takes her for an evening in “Bohemia.” Planning to cure her of her desire for excitement, he stages a fake raid, which, to his own .surprise, turns into a genuine one. Sylvia finds more adventure and thrills than she’ bargained for. The climax of the story is novel and satisfying in the extreme. To-morrow night's feature, “The Stronger Vow,” has a brand new and colourful role for Geraldine Farrar, the screen’s most famous emotional artist; a role that presents her as the queen of the notorious apaches of Paris, loving-and daring amid the ruthless characters of the underworld. Farrar lias never had a piny that was so„lruo to life, and so replete with logical situations as this new Goklwyn. II is a drama with a “wallop,” and is Geraldine Farrar’s most convincing screen triumph.