ROYAL PICTURES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2318, 20 August 1921, Page 3

ROYAL PICTURES.

She was the most beautiful girl in all the group of islands, and yet no one thought her even fairly attractive, because the standard was black and fat. Half French and half Javanese, with* a foster father who never paid her a compliment, and not enough clothes to even occupy her attention for half a day, >he spent most of her time dancing, .swimming and climbing the tall trees for coca (nuts. Nimble as a hoy, -lie was strong, and growing more beautiful every day. The natives called her a swinging name meaning White Alntond Blossom, but her fosler father called her Mary, and as Mary the New England college boy knew her when he arrived. They thought she was wonderful, so much so they wished to marry her. Thus Craline Seymour as Mary becomes a very important figure in the story of “The Idol Dancer,” David Wark Griffith’s latest First National Production, to be shown to-night. The first of the great Snooky comedies will also he shown, and a further episode of “The Invisible Hand,” Prices as usual.

On Monday night there will be offered a double Fox programme. George Walsh will be presented in star role in “The Plunger,” We are told that, the company making this picture quitted the scene of the recent Wall Street explosion only a few hours before the disaster. Shirley Mason will be seen in the second special, “Wing Toy.” This is a story of Chinatown in the City of Now York, and supplies the action of a unique and beautiful story,