ENTERTAINMENTS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2632, 13 September 1923, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

“SKIRTS.” At the Town Hall on Saturday next patrons will be treated to tine entertainment .when the big Fox programme, headed by “Skirts,” is presented. “Skirts” is, undoubtedly the greatest novelty |hat has yetcome to the screen. .During its six reels of comedy dozens of thrills are introduced. Among these are the rescue from the top of a train of a girl, who is picked lip by a man hanging from an airplane. A parachute descent from 2,0(10 feet. A running train dashing through a burning forest, crashes upon a burned bridge, hurling the train to destruction. A rescue by nhmarine and the escape of a wind menagerie. Included in the cast are the “Singer Midgets,” a group of nineteen people, the tallest being 40 inches and the shortest 35 inches, also 3,000 peked beauties and the inimitable Clyde Cook. The second feature on Saturday is the drama “Heart of Youth,” featuring Harold Goodwin. “Usual places, 9d and 1/6, children 3d and 6d. “Skirts” will he screened at 9.15 to enable shopworkers to see it. ROYAL PICTURES. D. W. Griffiths has made a great nine-part picture in “Dream Street” which is to he screened at the Royal Theatre to-morrow night. The foundation of the play inevitable challenges comparison with “Broken Blossoms,” but this is a different kind of story altogether, and the ending is as happy as sunshine. Carol Dempster in the leading role is very wayward and notably beautiful, and the supporting east is so splendid as to deserve special mention. Ralph Craves as the blustering, handsome McFaddie, sly evil leering Oriental Sway Wan, wonderfully done by Edward Peil. The whole play is a great achievement and worthy of the fame of the great producer. Saturday’s programme promises to he something out of the ordinary. James Oliver Curwood’s powerful and gripping drama “The Man from Hell’s River,” is to be shown. As a supporting feature a Mack Sennett comedy will be screened.