ROYAL PICTURES

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2460, 29 July 1922, Page 2

ROYAL PICTURES

The most famous detective stories ever written are those of Sir Conan Doyle, and in producing these stories for the screen the Stoll British Company have made one of the finest series of features that have ever been produced. The first of these features will head the bill at the Royal Theatre to-night. It is entitled “The Resident Patient.” F.ille Norwood in the role of Sherlock Holmes makes the famous detective of fiction really live. All the characters made famous by Conan Doyle have been chosen with the greatest care, and each story shows the work of a master erminologist, as imagined by the author. Also an extraordinary Sennett comedy, “Married Life,” and “Winners of the West.” The fact that you can never tell just what is going to happen, whether when you are down to your last sou and the clouds hang over your head, .your luck may not change, or vice versa, whether calamity may not he around the corner at the heydey of prosperity was used as the foundation of a fascinating picture, “Life’s Darn Funny,” starring Viola Dana, and showing on Monday. The original plot of the picture came from Christine Jope Slade’s Saturday Evening Post story, “Caretakers.”