ENTERTAINMENTS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2639, 29 September 1923, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

MARY-CARR* IN “SILVER WINGS.” Remembered for her magnificent performance in “Over the Hill,” Mary Carr will he seen at the Town Hall to-night as the mother and leading figure around which the plot of “Silver Wings” revolves. She plays the role of a mother who Spares the rod and spoils the child, the child in this case being a selfish son who browbeats a loving sister and brother. His -arrogance leads the mother to sacrifice the fruits of years of labour, in order to clear his name from a stigma. We also follow the lives of other members of ihe lit lie mother’s family, some fol - lowing the primrose path and others holding to home and family. “Silver Wings" comes as a refreshing wholesome play of mother love, after a surfeit of pictures in which one sees overdressed* men and women suffering Ihe cruel pangs of love and jenlonsv amidst gilded surroundings or perhaps an over generous display of lingerie spattered about in the numerous bedroom farces, “Silver Wings” is great because if is a human t roe of life, story of lion)?. Usual prices to-night, fid and I/(i, i hildren 3d and (id. ROYAL PICTURES. The story of “Love Never Dies” at the Royal Theatre to-night lives to its title. Lloyd Hughes, the leading mule player, has the role of a successful engineer. A spectacular train wreck features in the early part of tlie story and lias its count-er-part; in the thrilling rescue of a drowning man from the waterfalls in the last reel of film. It is in the evolution of this climax that the leading characters find solution to their problems. Buster Keaton comedy entitled “Convict 13.” On Monday night “Up in the Ail 1 About Mary,” will be screened, A romance with nature’s hgst in the way of scenery and bathing girls. Mary wanted marriage for love but mother wanted a gilt edged son-in-law. Special extra: The fight for the N.Z. Light Weight Championship in 14 thrilling rounds: “Blackburn v. Murray.”