ENTERTAINMENTS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2712, 25 March 1924, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS.

PETER B. KYNE STORY AT CABARET.

A story of the sea, packed with drama and every scene having a distinct thrill of its own, Thomas Meighan’s latest picture “Homeward Bound," based on “The Light to Leeward," by Peter B. Kyne will be the feature at the popular Town Hall Cabaret to-morrow evening. Treacherous seas aud seameu, siornas and shipwrecks —and the romance of a young skipper who braved all to win a gill’s love are the chief ingredients of the picture. Lila Lee plays the girl. A two reel comedy “When Knights were Cold,” a travelogue and gazette complete Ihe line bill. Prices as usual.

On Saturady evening one of the year's big novelties wii be seen at the Town Hall when the live reel Lupkio Lane laugh hit “A Friendly Husband” is screened. Besides the continued comedy there are several spectacular scenes in tins feature. Usual Prices. One of the biggest scenes in “Manslaughter” at the Town Hall next Monday, to wit, the motor smash, is more than screen realism. One character, Jack Mower, came out of it with a dislocated shoulder, bruken nose and many abrasions. BOYAL PICTUKES. lienee Adoree, the delightful little French actress, whose recent dawn on the film firmament has been one of the brilliant events of the season, didn’t act, she says, when she played “The Six Fifty,” a new Universal attraction to be screened at the Ttoyal to-morrow night. She says she just acted naturally. Orville Caldwell and a big east appear with the little star in “ihe Six Fifty,” in which a thrilling train collision and other exciting incidents mark the high lights of the story.. Mile. Adoree, known in private life as Mrs Tom Moore, cooked a complete dinner for the screen during the “Anniversary Party’-' scene for the picture. She has a charming home in Hollywood and loves to “mess around the kitchen” as she calls it, when not acting. A really good production. In the iioyal advertisement appears a list of excellent pictures to be shown locally at an early date, to which the mauagement thaws special attention. The comedy for tomorrow night’s programme is entitled “Tips” and is a seream from start to finish.