ROYAL PICTURES

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2310, 2 August 1921, Page 3

ROYAL PICTURES

Go to see any motion picture produced by Lois Weber, and you’re Mire not only to witness a story of considerable strength and appeal, but also to see the veneer chipped oft' some of the facts of our social life, and the truth laid bare. Miss Weber doesn’t believe in using the screen for teaching morality.; she simply exhibits the facts, and lets you judge for yourself. - The result is, you are not only entertained by her pictures; you are also made a little wiser by them. Take “To please One Woman,” for instance, Lois Weber’s Paramount Picture at the Royal on Wednesday. The title refers to what comprises the chief ambition of the bulk of the males in the world —to please one woman. Fortunately, most of the women in the world are worth striving for. But what happens when a strikingly beautiful, utterly selfish woman moulds her life with the deliberate intention of making men her slaves, and rewards them 'by shattering tlieir careers'? Miss Weber takes such a creature as the central figure in “To Please One Woman,” and shows the tangled romances and blighted hopes that follow in her wake. But in the end the selfish woman is shown in her true colours, and love heals the wounds she has caused. Claire Windsor, Edward Burns, Mona Lisa, and Edith Kessler are prominent in the cast- of the picture. It was written and directed by Lois Weber. Also Fatty Arbuckle as “The Butcher Boy.”