ROYAL PICTURES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2379, 14 January 1922, Page 3

ROYAL PICTURES.

From the first moments of the picture, when by judicious use of a pair of eyes that can’t behave, she has a traffic policeman literally at her feet, right up to the last, when the matrimonial tangles have been smoothed out, and she has promised “to be Constance Talmadge doesn’t allow a minute to pass without uproarious chuckles of satisfaction from the audience who are witnessing her portrayal of “A temperamental Wife.” Snappy and bright' to the last degree, the story is a real Connie Talmadge one, daring in parts, but never beyond the confines of good taste, and always with a twist that runs off at another tangent just as one gets ready to gasp. Wyndham Sanding is the luckless husband in this case, who is led'a pretty dance by his temperamental wife, and all over a female stenographer, who in the end turns out to have a perfectly good husband and a pair of twins of her own.. In -addition to this picture, to-night’s programme includes a Larry Semon comedy, “The Sportsman,” and the opening of a grand new Secret Service serial, “Terror Trail.”

Charming Dorothy Dalton, the Paramount star, appears to fine advantage in her latest Paramount photoplay, “Behind Masks,” an adaptation of E. Phillips Oppenheim’s novel, “Jeanne of the Marshes,” ’on Monday night. The picture is one of the best in which Miss Dalton has been seen this season. As Jeanne Mesurier, Miss Dalton is quite captivating. Her artistry is well displayed in the scene wherein she is locked up in a cave with a supposed dead body, and from which she makes her escape and later dives into the storm-tossed sea.