ROYAL PICTURES

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2332, 22 September 1921, Page 2

ROYAL PICTURES

Comedy-dramas as clever as •‘The Poor Simp” are rare. It aliounds in wholesome, effortless humour, and can be relied upon to please most any type of spectator. An original slant on the fall-in-love i heme, it shows the purely laughable side of being victimised sentimentally. “The Poor Simp” was a sane young man until lie fell in love. After that he ceased to be accountable. There is a generous amount of that modern something, host described as jazz, that will put this picture over with a vim. Owen Moore is the agile comedian, and his characterisation is a credit both to himself and bis director. This picture will lie shown to-night.

“The Whisper Market,” the Vitagraph production to he shown at I lie Royal to-morrow night, has provided Corinne Griffith with one of the finest acting opportunities of her screen career. As Erminie North, wife of the American vieeConsul at Rio de Janiero, she gives a vigorous, sympathetic portrayal of a real woman, moved by womanly emotions, who fights bravely to help her husband, and, unwittingly, falls into the toils of a band of international blackmailers. It is a story of mystery and adventure, involving I lie governments of two continents, and the women is the centre about which it revolves.