ROYAL PICTURES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2396, 23 February 1922, Page 2

ROYAL PICTURES.

The cities are fraught with just such domestic disasters as is revealed in the Selznick National picture, “Just A Wife,” starring Beatrice Joy, Roy Stewart, and Kathlyn Williams. It concerns the discovery by a wife .of her husband’s duplicity in his attentions to the woman who has been responsible for his financial success. “Just A Wife” points out forcibly the distressing moments spent by a normal, full-blooded young woman who became the wife of a rising railroad magnate “in name only.” Although she had every necessity, and luxury money could buy, her heart was left empty from the want of her husband's love, and the motherhood that love would have brought her. Beatrice Joy is the girl, Kathlyn Williams the vamp, and Roy Stewart the man who caused it all. This picture will be shown to-night, at fid and Is Id.

“THE WOMAN IN WHITE.” For the production of “The Twin Pawns,” with captivating and bewitching Mae Murray playing the dual role of the twin sisters, the highly dramatic essence of Wilkie Collins’ famous novel, “The Woman in White,” was extracted. Locations and settings in “The Twin Pawns” are effective in their verisimilitude to the scenes demanded by the story. Costly furnishings and draperies are used with a lavish handbill the wealthy steel magnate’s home. On the other hand, the sordidness of slum dwellings is accentuated .in the poverty-stricken flat in the first part of the story. Due regard is paid to correctness of detail and uniforms in the insane asylum settings, the bar-room scene, the immense steel manufacturing plant and workshops and offices. The most carping critics will have little with which to find fault either in the exteriors or interiors utilised in this production, at the Royal on Friday. Prices, Gd and Is Id, children half-price. “The River’s End” will be screened next week, and on Saturday next “The Thunderbolt.”