ROYAL PICTURES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2150, 15 July 1920, Page 3

ROYAL PICTURES.

The programme screened last night will he repeated to-night. “The New Moon,” the star feature for to-morrow night, is a story of Russian life as it exists to-day — of men and women, aristocrats and peasants, freedom and bondage, love and laughter, shame and tears. A beautiful Russian princess disguises herself, as a peasant girl, while she seeks protection from the anarchists who are trying to rule the town. When the women of the country are ordered to register so as to he nationalised, she leads them to revolt. Miss Norma Talmadgo as the Princess Pavlovna is given an excellent opportunity to display that remarkable versatility for which she has become famous. As the Russian Princess she is proud, beautiful and gorgeously dressed. Docked in resplendent jewels, silks and velvets, she is truly a wondrously beautiful member of the royal house of Russia. Later, as a peasant girl, in coarse, ill-fitting clothes and shawled head she lends atmosphere and realism to the role. The biggest hall room over used in pictures, picturesque scenes at Saranac Lake, Russian officers in their handsome uniforms, and loose-bloused, long-he-anlod Bolsliiviki, and peasant girls in the grey sashes and pretty shawls tramped about the hills in twelve inches of snow, troikas and britehkas, Russian sleighs, all lend the atmosphere of realism to the production.

On Saturday don’t miss Mabel Normand in “Upstairs.”