ROYAL PICTURES

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2238, 12 February 1921, Page 3

ROYAL PICTURES

A romance dealing with the lives of Gypsies as they are found in their natural haunts is the latest Hanna production, “A Romany Lass,’’ to ho screened to-night. The atmosphere is most convincing: it has the scent of the heather and the romance of the Romany campfires, and the story pulses with the strong passionate loves and hatreds of this, strange wandering people. The east is of universal excellence, including James Knight, who featured in “Nature's Gentleman,” Marjorie Villis, a very pretty girl, and Charles Rock, better known as “Old Bill” in “The Better 'Ole.'’ On Monday Torn Mix will he seen in (he role of Bat Carson, a Toiled Slates Deputy Marshal sent to investigate mysterious leakages of gold in shipments by the Sonora ■Gold and Copper Mining Company, in the William Fox thriller, “The Terror.” After investigation, Carson suspects Sheriff Caiiby and C'on Norton, owner of the Odeon Dance Hall, of the thefts. He also discovers that Can by and Norton have as their tools Fay La Cross, a dance hall girl at the Odeon, and Phil Harland, her suitor and confidential secretary to the president of the mining company. These characters form the centre of an exciting drama, full of action, in which Tom Mix shows his usual dash and da redeviltry. The prices for Monday will tie 2s and Is, plus tax. Children half-price.