ROYAL PICTURES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2373, 29 December 1921, Page 3

ROYAL PICTURES.

■ Bewitching Billie Rhodes is seen in a, play that will delight and stimulate the most jaded fancy by its humour, thrilling situations, and sensational finale, at the Royal this evening. A girl who is a crook by accident of environment —a daring midnight burglary —the sensational capture of the girl, who is forced to become a social imposter and marries a man to carry out the scheme of revenge of a society leader, are some of the complications that make this picture excellent. The cast is one of unusual merit, of which Billie Rhodes is “Boots,” the heroine. Melbourne MacDowell plays Uncle Ben, chief of the crooks known as “The Lion.” A further episode of “The Branded Four” will be shown.

“Out of the Snows,” to be shown on Friday, is the first, of a series of Selznje-lc'pictures, starring Ralph Ineo, and dealing with that wide diversification of life that is found or, the North American continent. From Ihe bandit-harried Mexican border to the frozen wastes of Hudson Bay, live men and women whose romances and tragedies could fuinish plots for a thousand entertaining photoplays. But around no other people has such a tint of glamour been* thrown as the fur traders of the North, the Canadian ■Mounted Police, and the half-breeds that the life on the pine woods develop. The story is introduced with a thread of mystery, a beautiful foundling girl and a half-breed woman of strange beauty. Into the lives of these, two women comes a stalwart member of the mounted police. Outlaw fur traders, Indian runners and all the riff-raff of a frontier trading post furnish the background for one of the most thrilling melodramas the screen has ever seen.