ROYAL PICTURES.
One of the best fight pictures that wo have yet seen is “Scrap Iron” with Charles Ray at the Royal Theatre on Friday night. The story of “Scrap Iron,” adapted from one written by Charles E. Van Loan and published in the Saturday Evening Post, is not as broad in comedy as most of Mr Ray’s productions. In fact, it is not a comedy at all, although there are many good laughs and chuckles in it. The main theme of t’ e plot, the fight of a young man for means by which he can give his widowed mother the things necessary to restore her io health, is too dramatic and sympathetic to he called comedy. The fight scene, which i.- the biggest incident in the picture, is the one which critics declare stamps Kay as a dreeting genius, and the reali-tie way in which the live hundred men who occupy the spectator’s seats in the light arena respond to the events as they take place in the ring is the height of realism. Extra, “Fantomas.”
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2462, 3 August 1922, Page 2
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178ROYAL PICTURES. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2462, 3 August 1922, Page 2
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