AMUSEMENTS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2538, 3 February 1923, Page 2

AMUSEMENTS.

ROYAL PICTURES. A feature attraction at the Royal Theatre to-night is “Why Girls Leave Home,” adapted from the popular stage success. A large and well-known east interprets this pictorial adaptation of the pitfalls which surround a girl when her parents, through failing to understand hex-, cause her to find outside associations. It is a picture which is filled with dramatic ingredients. It is a pietui-e which is full of sympathy, cruelty, love, sentiment, mo-ther-love, pathos and humour. A valuable lesson is to be gained from the moral. Also Mack Sennett comedy entitled “Call the Cop.” Extra, “With Stanley in Africa.” On Monday night “The Hole in the Wall” will be screened. k ZANE GREY’S “THE U.P. TRAIL.” Zane Grey’s masterpiece novel, fascinating romance of the construction of the Union Pacific Railway, will be screened at the Town Hall to-night at usual prices Comment on the excellence of the story is quite unnecessary as it is almost world known. The photography and acting in the picture is exceptionally good, the leading roles being taken by Marguerite de la Motte, Roy Stewart, Kathlyu Williams and Josepb Dowling with many others of equal renown. A preliminary announcement is made of the advent of the world film “Omar Khyyam,” which will be sei-eened on Tuesday will open at Heath’s on Monday, the prices of admission being l/fi and 2/- plus tax, children (id and 1/1. The Town Hail orcliestx-a will accompany the picture during the screening.