ROYAL PICTURES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2271, 3 May 1921, Page 3

ROYAL PICTURES.

“Sealed Hearts,” to be screened on Wednesday and Thursday, is the title of Eugene O’Brien’s third picture in Selznick. In this new picture the Selznick star has a role much different than that in his other pictures —different and more intensely dramatic. The picture has as its underlying thought the fact that youth responds to youth, though tied to age. This is brought out through the situation of a young and pretty woman, full of the bloom of youth, being married to an elderly man, an industrial Hercules, who has never had thought or time for “play” living under the same roof with his adopted son. The youthful spirit of these two young people, the magnate’s young wife and his adopted son, develops -a mutual attraction, to the jealous discomfiture of the elderly one, and the situations that follow are intensely dramatic and startling. But si cleverly have the authors drawn their characters that the working out of the problem becomes of keen and intense interest to the viewer. Another great Christie comedy. “His Bridal Nightmare," will be included in this programme, as well as a further episode of t lie serial, “The Vanishing Dagger."