ENTERTAINMENTS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2635, 20 September 1923, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

••QUEEN OF SHEBA.” The big surprise in the “Queen of Sheba," at the Town Hall on Saturday next is the chariot race, It is so exciting that hundreds of people have asked how it was made. The selling covers 150 acres and contains 5,000 people. One chariot overturned, injuring the driver whilst Belly Blythe (Queen of Shelia) and Nell Craig (I'rincess Vashti) both completed the course. The Queen of Sheba is (lie story of the passionate love of the most beautiful woman the world lias known, for I lie wisest man in history. The romance is evolved with a background of war and intrigue. It is a superb panorama that tills the heart as well as the eye. Brices on Saturday ! and 1 li, children 3d and (id. Next week will see the presentation of a big Wallace Reid feature "Thirl v Da vs," also the great Motherhood' feature "Silver Wings." ROYAL PICTURES. A potpourri of entertainment is supplied in Mack Scnuett's six-reel comedy-melodrama, “The Crossroads of Now York." which is the altraclion at the Royal Theatre tomorrow night. It is a picture ol humour, romance, drama and sensations. The cast is one seldom found, siicli is ils excellence. While at first glance this cast one notices that tin l stars arc all fun-makers, yet il is quite surprising lo find them doing dramatic work and injecting into their work little Tinman angles which register splendidly. Prices !)<1 and I/(». children as usual. On Saturday night the programme is beaded by an excellent production entitled “What’s Wrong with Women?” Wise men have coped with il since the very day of (be human race. See this picture, also Mermaid comedy “Rapid Eire.”