ROYAL PICTURES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2399, 2 March 1922, Page 3

ROYAL PICTURES.

Doris Walton, in the feature of tonight’s programme at the Royal, “Handcuffs and Kisses,” is falsely charged of arson by her stepmother, who has already succeeded in- appropriating the girl’s fortune, and now plans to keep her out of the way so that she cannot discover the truth. Doris subsequently is placed on the Bedford reformatory, where she is grossly ill-treated. She is finally the cause of a mutiny, which brings about an investigation. Doris, however, warned by the other girls as to what will happen to her if she complains to the District Attorney, refuses to speak, and is placed by the matron as a servant in a nearby doctor’s home. She later meets the District Attorney, who, believing her innocent, takes her to his own home. After many vicissitudes she is made the wife of the Attorney. Lionel Barrymore has never given such proof of his wide versatility as an actor as he has since he began starring in his latest series of productions for the First National. “Jim the Penman,” which will be shown on Friday, reveals him in a character entirely different from any he has ever portrayed before, and one that will be a revelation to those who have seen him only in roles where repression lias been the The whole picture from beginning to end qbounds in powerful situations and gripping climaxes.