ROYAL PICTURES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2203, 16 November 1920, Page 3

ROYAL PICTURES.

Harry Alorey will he seen on the screen of (he Royal to-morrow and Thursday night in “Silent Strength,” a feature in which lie assumes a dual role. This is said to be one of the strongest of such stories to be offered a male star to portray, for in its various unusual twists and situations dramatic crises of great (lower are developed. Mr Alorey appears as cousins, Dan la Roche, a man of nature in love with the forests in which he has made-his home, and also as Henry CToziet, a financier of the great city, Avho stoops to foul means to achieve his ends. How the fates of these two men cross,, and how Ruth Madison, a woman loved hy Dan, plays a peculiar role iu-the working out of their destinies, forms a photoplay of an unusually powerful nature. Air. Morey's dual characterisation is one of the strongest performances ho has yet given to the screen, and the support rendered him by such capable Vitagraph players as Betty Blythe, Robert Gaillard, Bernard Siegel, Herbert i’alice and James Gosteilo is of a finished type. “Silent Strength” is an original .-lory .by Laurence .McCloskcy, one of the foremo.-.t ci \ itagraph’s writers, while the direction was in charge of Rani Scardon, for a long lime Air Morcv's director.