ENTERTAINMENT.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2686, 24 January 1924, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENT.

ROYAL PICTURES

Richard Barfehness, who will be remembered for all time in “Way Down East,” “Sonny,” and “Trouble,” offers as his latest picture “The Bond Boy,” at the Royal Theatre to-morrow night. Bartelmess portrays a. poor boy who is hound out to the service of a mean farmer. He is arrested for the murder of Ibis fanner and —well come and see for yourself. The cast is a big one and includes Mary Thurman and Mary AI den. There is also a Mermaid Comedy entitled “Step (his Wav.”

On Saturday night Douglas Fairhanks will be seen to great advantage in his latest rip-roaring comedy entitled “The Nut.” This picture is also fall of hair-breadth escapes. Prices 9d and 1/6, children as usual. Watch out for the big specials to he shown at the Royal Theatre next week. One of these is entitled “The Mail They Could Not Hang.” “FIFTY CANDLES.” For next Saturday evening’s entertainment at the Town Hall the management have selected a fine Seiznick programme headed by the Saturday Evening Post story “Fifty Candles.” This is a dramatic story set in Honolulu, China and England—a drama in which treachery and intrigue straggle to still a romance that will not he denied. The leading role is enacted bv Marjorie Daw, a big favourite with picture goers. Bertram Grassby as Hung Ching Chung gives one of the best Chinese characterisations seen in recent pictures. George Webb plays a satanie ship’s surgeon and Eddie Burns the hero. The star comedy will be “Should a Husband Tell?” whilst a scenic and gazette complete the programme, to he screened at usual prices, 9d and 1/6, children 3d and 6d. On Wednesday next another Peter B. Kyne picture, “The Go Getter,” in eight reels will be seen at the Cabaret, whilst later in the week “Down Home” is scheduled for screening.