ROYAL PICTURES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2161, 10 August 1920, Page 3

ROYAL PICTURES.

Ai the linyol to-morrow niyhl will be screened a, powerful Hepworth production entitled ‘‘The i lnnybiy •iudye,” the story ol a fat Iter who had to try hr- own son for murder, “Tin' Ilnityiny -iud.ye' p,roves how coinpeiliny an Fnylish production can be in Ihe riylil hands. The result is a triumph — iinc ad my. line set hays, tine photography. line direction, line story — not a weak moment throuyhonl. On the one hand, the condemned man's danyhlei —on the other, the jndye's only son. Both outcasts, the dauyhier on account of her father, the son turned away from home until hi 1 could, alone and*unnided, live n life worthy of the family nr me. They helped each other. Their married iii'e was happy fill ho slioi a man in her defence; I hen, under his adopted name he was tried'for murder —tried by his own father —stern, upriyhl, and just, with no merry in his son! —a man who had turned his Justice into n juyyernniil. not cariny whom he crushed beneath its merciless wheels. On I Vidov and Saturday two

yrent ,-lar.- will appear in -epnrnte at tract ioim—Bryant Washburn and Tom Moore.