ENTERTAINMENTS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2583, 22 May 1923, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS.

“SCANDAL.” REALISTIC AND DARING

“Scandal” is a comedy that lias created discussion in all parts of the English speaking world. Virile with a strength of realism in its plot, dialogues and situations, it is free from the nasty vulgarisms and cheap siiggestiveiiess of much that h presented for the entertainment of theatre-goers..ln Miss Doris Duane, who plays lend in the forthcoming presentation, Foxton will have the opportunity of becoming, acquainted with a young actress whose dramatic abilities are of rare quality and whose fitness for the difficult role in which she is cast have been recognised by press and public wherever she has played. “Scandal” has aroused much' controversy in Sydney and the four New Zealand towns in which it lias been played. The story of the play develops from this incident: Beatrice Vnnderdyke, an American heiress, goes to the studio of an artist after his working hours —a thing that no girl brought u]i under “the best conventions" would ever do. The young heiress rises to the occasion, announcing to her relatives as they come in that she really came to see the man who lives in the apartment opposite, a very rich voting mail who spends his time in hunting big game nr riding around in his private yacht. He plays the dutiful husband before the family and although he doesn’t care for her really, in the end both he and Beatrice find that they are mad about one another. Mr Eric Harrison, playing the lead to Doris Duane in “Scandal,” is noted for other accomplishments than those of the stage. He is cast here as Pelham Franklyn, the charming lover —the rich man living over the road and it is with him that Doris Duane is concerned in the famous “bedroom scene” of “Scandal.” The box plan is at Mr Heath’s.

THE LURE OF THE YUKON. Stories of the early days of the wild rush for gold in Alaska always contain sufficient elements of the wild rush for gold in Alaska always contain sufficient elements of the primitive to make them worth while. In the picture “The Syren Call,” featuring Dorothy . Dalton, David Powell, and Mitchell Lewis, the plot has boon skilfully woven around these three actors in such an exciting manner as to command admiration everywhere. Summed up briefly the story can he told in these words, man, woman, and the beast. On Thursday night the Fox Special “If I Were King” will be screened. ROYAL PICTURES. The “punch” in the story is one of the things being advertised about “The Jilt,” the Universal all-star photoplay which is starring at the Royal Theatre to-morrow night. The biggest surprise scene in “The Jilt,” is said to be one in' which a blind man reads at a woman’s command. R. Ramsey wrote the story. Arthur Stutter adapted it to the screen, while Irving Cummings directed, and between their respective influences sought to preserve and even accentuate the “trick situations” in the story. Extra: Round 4 of “The Leather Pushers.” Comedy y “The Rookies.” . On Friday night “A Voice in the Dark” will be screened and on Saturday next Wesley Barry will appear in “Schooldays.