ROYAL PICTURES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2181, 25 September 1920, Page 3

ROYAL PICTURES.

The piclure loving public will welcome with joy Hie news tha! a i heda Bara super production is to lie screened at the Royal to-nigbt. In Ibis super production Miss Bara forsakes the costumed productions v/liicb she lias been appearing in—- “ Cleopatra” and “Du Barry’ and returns to a story of contemporary life and conditions. Miss Bara lakes (he part of Alary Lyude, who first ,-mes a glimmer id.' hope come into her bedraggled life when an arlisl

asks her lo pose as a model lor a painting of (he Madonna. At his Audio she meets Robert Sinclair, a wealthy man about town, who immediately sees u new field of conquest in the pretty girl. Mary goes out with Sinclair. It is the story of so many working girls. The denouement gives Miss Bara, some of the finest opportunities for acting. On Monday the picture of pictures, “The Miracle Man,” will he screened, and those who wish to see this superb production would he wise lo book their seats, as no doubt the accommodation of the Ibcatrc will be fully taxed. The deep human appeal of “The Miracle Alan” is evident .in its striking series of varied scenes- —from darkness to dawn, from the depths to the heights — startling scenes of the underworld; blood-stirring physical conflictthe thrills of crime and gun-play; love that is good and love that is evil: (he lure of the sea, of the gamblers luck, of the fields and (lowers in summer: all the sweetness and bitterness of human souls —knit so naturally into this groat, gripping drama that the result is an inspiring masterpiece of screen entertainment. The dregs and the wine of the world —all that is fine, all that is sorrowful, all that allures in the act of living, is told in “The .Miracle Man,” and the man or woman who can see it unmoved is not to be envied. .