ROYAL PICTURES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2317, 18 August 1921, Page 2

ROYAL PICTURES.

Polities as they are, and as they might be, are dramatically set forth in “The Figurehead” in a way that .should be highly interesting to everybody. There is the spirit of democracy and altruism which permeates this drama, and which will he sure to enlist- the sympathy of the average special or. Thrilling scenes are frequent. A tight in an underworld cafe, the raiding of “the figurehead's" apartments, the sensational episode of his speech iu the big ball, are a few of the high points of suspense. These tempestuous passages have been effectively directed, and are alternated by more quiet interludes, where romance and human interest dominate. This piclure, with a further episode of “The Silent Avenger,” will he shown tonight.

In “Life’s a Funny.. Proposition,” the chief attraction to-morrow (Friday) night, William Desmond, cheerful adventurer and genial Irishman, brings home the fact that life really is a l'unny proposition iu this story, which is full of just such a series of mishap- and complication- as come his way in Ihe picture of Ibis tillc. In Ibis story Desmond is engaged in the sometimes successful task of extracting Ihe nimble dollar from a dose-listed uncle, and this has had the effect of making him an accomplished perverler of the truth, but. the accumulation of perplexing evidence against him -nows him under iu the end.