ROYAL PICTURES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2351, 5 November 1921, Page 2

ROYAL PICTURES.

Is it wonder that when the two master writers combine forces, as with Gouverneur Morris and Randolph Chester, in “Trumpet Island,” the great special Vitagraph production at the Royal to-night, the result should he a dramatic offerings of rare power and beauty. An airplane accident in a terrific thunderstorm, a fight for life and the girl on a cliff’s edge, are but two of the daring and thrilling episodes which feature the production. It is a piclure which cannot well be missed. Never has art on canvas or in drama depicted Nature with such extraordinary power, for here is realism at its greatest height, for the storm in “Trumpet Island” was taken from nature itself. In the whole history and art of kinematography nothing finer has ever been filmed. It stands at the apex of achievement. The prices of admission will be fid and Is Id.

“Buried,Treasure,” starring Marion Davies, which comes to the Royal on Monday depicts scenes taken in Topango canyon, California, against a background of peaks., which outranks anything of the kind yet done in films. The setting demanded a seventeenth century castle in Spain. When the producers came on this particular bit. of territory in their quest for a site, they saw its rich possibilities, As an extra there will be a Mack Sennett comedy, “Sleuth.”