ROYAL PICTURES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2282, 28 May 1921, Page 3

ROYAL PICTURES.

“The Fortune Hunter" is the star attraction to-night, and is a delightful comedy with a story full of realities and inspiration. The famous stage play from the pen of Winchell Smith, who wrote “Light - nin’," is particularly adapted to screen requirements, and forms an admirable vehicle for Earle Williams in the attractive role of Nat Dunham, the ne’er-do-well who goes to a small town and makes good, ehietly through the exercise of a book of rules imposed on him by a chum who secs in him qualities for success thal the young man has not hitherto dreamed of. The “rules" force him to help himself wliero others have failed. Many comedy situations are provided, yet through the humour with which the play abounds there is a strain of philosophy and knowledge of human nature that makes the story interesting as well as amusing. As an extra a further episode of “The Lost City" will be shown. Prices, fid and Is Id. On Monday there will be a double Fox Programme. For all who love Western stories —and who' does not —there will be offered Buck Jones, the daring Fox star, in a picture milled “Sunset Sprague.” Jones’ pictures are always impressive and unusual. There is no finer rider op the screen, or off, and he makes one feel that the real joy of living is not to be found in the big cities, but on horseback jin the not densely populated West.

The new Eox star, Eileen Percy, will also appear in “The Husband Hunter,’ ’on Monday evening.