ROYAL PICTURES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2139, 12 June 1920, Page 3

ROYAL PICTURES.

’To-night, at the Royal, "Do Luxe Annie” will lie screened. The “De Luxe” game is an adaptation of the old “Badger” game —in which (he woman poses as a seller of De Luxe editions, and inveigles an impressionable man, with a weakness for the fair sex, into a compromising situation, whereupon her male confederate breaks into the scene and. demands blackmail for the insult to his “wife.” It will be remembered that this picture received prominence in Wellington in the evidence before the Supreme Court there, when a young man was charged with alleged blaekmail.

'On Monday the great Australian .Snowy Baker film, “'The Man from Kangaroo,” will be screened. “The Dominion” concludes a sub-lea del* of February 17th by saying; “British or French films may be difficult to secure at present, but it may be hoped ere long our moving picture people will be able to afford their patrons some relief from the more aggressive type of the American article.” “The Man from Kangaroo,” ‘the first of the big Australian (British) Star Films produced by the E. J. Carroll —-Reg. L. Baker combination, has a double appeal to the Australasian born audience. The townbred portion will appreciate it for the enlightenment it throws on many phases of country life hitherto unknown to them, and the countrybred portion will like it for the faithful portrayal of the familiar scenes of ordinary life. From the old sundowner to the sporting squatter, the characters are true to Australasian out-hack life, and I lie everyday incidents of droving, lamb marking, horse breaking, shearing, etc., are held together by a fascinating and thrilling plot which affords the great Australian athlete, “Snowy” Baker, ample opportunity to puli off many of the daring “stunts” which have won hint international fame. I