ENTERTAINMENTS

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2720, 12 April 1924, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS

ROYAL PICTURES

How would you like to be the homeliest girl in town ? If you were a reigning beauty, would you, evert if you were in pictures, be willing to cover up your beauty to appear as the homeliest girl 1 ? Yet that’s what Lcatrice Joy'does in Marshall "NTeilan’s new picture ‘'Minnie,” to be screened at the Royal Theatre tonight. Matt Moore takes the loading man’s part, playing-the role of a forgetful hut inquisitive reporter. He looks forlorn. He wears a coat that for length would fit a giant. His face is freckled like Wes lev Barrv’s.

On Monday night Maurice Costello. one of the greatest favourites the screen has known, returns to the screen in one of the strongest and strangest stories ever screened. I' tells of a surgeon who married two sisters, believing the first one dead, he married the other 1 , unaware of their relationship. His professional duty a fterwards placed him in a terrible predicament. Don’t forget to see this unusual story. On Tuesday night “The Strangers’ Banquet” a Goldwyn Super-feature will be seen. A picture that shorrld not be missed.

“THE VTLLA.GE BLACKSMITH.”

“Under a spreading chestnut tree, The village smithy stands;” These lines, the opening ones in Longfellow’s great poem. “The Village Blacksmith." which forms the basis' of the big picture at the Town Hall 10-night, are probably better known throughout the world than anv oilier two lines. Fox is adapting tile “Village Blacksmith” for motion pictures has retained to a remarkable degree the charm of the verse. Against a background of rare beauty and charm, we are shown the story of the lives of the smithy’s family, their romances, their adventures and their sorrows. Shining throughout, just as the famous mother of “Over the Hill,” is William Walling as the blacksmith father — a character that will long be remembered. The big supporting cast consists of a host of well-known names, among them being Virginia Valli, Bessie Love, Pat Moore, Tally Marshall and Francis Ford. Prices to-night 1/- and 1/6, children 3d and fid. Next week Bebe Daniels will he seen in “The Exciters,” and “Mother;” Marv Carr will be-seen in “The Daring Years.”