ROYAL PICTURES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2151, 17 July 1920, Page 3

ROYAL PICTURES.

_ The queen of the screen comedy actresses, Mabel Nonmind, will he seen at the Royal to-night in the one long spasm of merriment, “Upstair,-,” the latest Goldwyn comedy. Picture lively Mabel Normand making life erratic for a French chow while she makes ice cream moulds in a cabaret hotel kitchen. By sundry adventures, with a bell-hop lover close handy, Mabel manages to achieve a glad sixty minutes in the ragtime hall upstairs, and from the moment of: her captivating entry laugh follows laugh. Her “shimmy' ■dance is a. scream. Her adventures with a detective and a crook are separate thrills, and when her bellhop finally claims her and turns out to he a millionaire in disguise, you feel that you’ve had a real night at; the movies.

The usual prices Avill be charged. On Monday a Gipsy story, “The Sneak,” avi 11 he screened. Gipsies had already built up a had reputation for themselves as early as the Twelfth century. An ancient manuscript, probably Avritten in the year 1122, describes (hem as follows: — “Hagar laid a son from whom Avere horn the Chaltsinidc. When Hagar had that child she named il Ismael, from whom the Ismaelites descend Avho journey through I lie land, and Ave call them Gliallsmide, may evil befall them! They sell only things with blemishes, and tor whatever they sell they always,ask more than its real value. They cheat the people to whom they sell. They have no home, no country; they are satisfied to live intents, they wander over the country, they deceive the people, they cheat juen, hut rob no one noisily.” In “The Sneak,” hoAvever, the picturesque side of their lives is sliOAvn.