ROYAL PICTURES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2133, 27 May 1920, Page 3

ROYAL PICTURES.

‘‘IX THE OR]]’ OF THE POLAR .PACK ICE." “WITH SHACKLETON iX ANTARCTICA.’' “In 1 lie Grip of flic Polar lee,” which is described ns a wonderful picture. will be screened for Ihe !;rst lime of the Ro.yol Theatre to-nighl. The “Endiu'uiice,” of 250 lons, end her crew of 28 men, left Buenos Aires with her bunkers filled vilh, coal —to hist (should emergency arise) for at leasl three years —and the decks were given up to eighty dogs. Tea days out flic crew had their first glimpse of ic<i —South Georgia being sighted. They skirled along the sea face of a great glacier, reaching King Edward Covi — the great winding station. After many months of suffering and privation the ship was abandoned, and a camp made, called “Ocean Camp., where the parly lived for months. The ship was gradually crushed to pieces,-and eventually sank. After many attempts to cross the ice, the idea was given up, and Sir Ernest Shackleton made a wonderful journey of 800 miles in un open heal, as a rersult of which relief, was obtained from tlre Chilian ship "Aeicho. ’ This remarkable film is fully and graphically described in detail by Air George Dean, Captain Hurleys associate lecturer. Admission will be 2s and Is, plus tax. On Friday evening the programme will include a Vitagraph star item, featuring Earl 'Williams. “.V Rogues ■Komance.” Earle Williams has a remarkable genius for doubling Ins parts, and in "A Rogue’s Komanee” he demonstrates his versatility ny impersonating no less than four distinct. characters, separately, in the play. The rogue of the story is .Picard, one ol the most: famous characters in French criminal history, and in his impersonal loti of this character Earle Williams does some brilliant work. The story itself is intensely dramatic, and developed with a tine vein of sentiment, to the point where the master crook, to win Ins wife, turns detective, and outwits a gang of swindlers. ______