ROYAL PICTURES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2406, 18 March 1922, Page 3

ROYAL PICTURES.

Extraordinary interest is being manifested in the Catholic Art Association’s production of the true story of Father Cosgrove, “The Victim,” at the Royal to-night. This story, based entirely on facts, graphically tells the exciting and gripping events that ijefall the parish priest, who is found guilty of a murder and sentenced to death,' •yet though innocent, he .will not break his vows and speak, and goes to his death with a prayer to his Maker to forgive. , Extra: “The Terror Trail.” Prices, 6d and is Id.

“Flame oi the Desert,” the latest Goldwyn picture, starring Geraldine Farrar and Lou Tellegen, will be at the'Royal on Monday. Romantic love appeal and political intrigue form the basis of this remarkable'story. The Egyptian desert peoples invbke the curse of Allah against foreign infidels, and plot to'overthrow British rule in Egypt, and this forms the ground upon which is set the romantic story of an English officer who, living in Egypt for so long as Sheik Essad, is thought by Isabella Channing to be an Oriental. A great love theme develops, and Lady Isabella is tortured by. the of her heart and her pride of race; and even before his real identity is learned the woman he loves is called upon to prove the real depths of her feelings for him, regardless of caste. Extra: “Bride 13?’