ENTERTAINMENTS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2721, 15 April 1924, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

“THE EXCITERS.”

Behe Daniels, who is known as '“the speed girl of the movies,” because of the speed roles she has played in pictures, Ims ample opportunity lo gratify her craving for last movement in her .latest picture “The Exciters,” ia which she is supported by Antonio Moreno and which comes to the Town Hall Cabaret to-morrow evening. In the picture Miss Daniels. as Ronnie Rand, the chief of the “exciters,” has the thrilling experience of lading an aquaplane, participating in a motor boat race, riding in an aeroplane and dashing madly about tin l country roads in a speeding roadster. Tony* Moreno plays tlie mysterious crook whose final theft is to steal Bebe’s heart. “Pat’s Patent,” described as an Irish comedy will supply I lie laughs to-morrow night, whilst a Travelogue and the latest News complete a good hill. Usual Cabaret prices. is the woman a man loves nearer hi.- heart than his mother? Who rentes first in a man’s affections? “The Daring Years." featuring .Mary Carr and showing at the Town .Fin i! on Saturday next deals with lhi- subject in a novel manner. , Actors of all nations look part in ••Nero." the great spectacle picture to lie shown shortly.

••THE STRANGERS’ BANQUET.” The cast of "The Strangers’ Banquet." to lie shown at the Royal to-night, is one of the most notable ever assembled. Claire Windsor, Hoha it Bosworl h. Koekliffe Fellowes. Nigel Barrie, Claude Gillingvvater, Eleanor Boardman, Ford Sterling, Thomas Holding, Eugenia Bessorer, Stuart Holmes, Margaret Loofiiis, Edward Me Wade. James Marcus, Jack Curtis, Brinsley Shaw, Arthur Hoyt, Cyril Chadwick, .Jeau UershoU, Lucille-Rick-sen. Da gum i 1 Dodowsky. and many others, have important roles. The story is a thrilling and dramatic romance amid the busy yards of a great shipbuilding concern. The founder, Shane Keogh, leaves the fortune he has accumulated through the yards to his two children, John ami Perilh. There ore many "strangers” who wish to least at this golden banquet, and the story i.-> of their partial success and final fru-tralioii. The romance in the building of mighty ships lias been caught in this film and made the vivid background for a very human emotional, arousing drama of Arnerican life. It has an angle of appeal for every lover of pictures, ami is told as only such a master artist as Marshall Neilan can depict it. Beauty, imagination and reality are mingled into a rousing and compelling whole which no one can ever forget. Prices, Is and Is (id. children half-price.

'J'lirill"m«r ride* over the desert, two exciting tights and other thrills are mingled,with hilarious comedy in “BJinky,”- Universal comedy of army life, starring Hoot Gibson, on Wednesday evening. Gibson plays a young lieutenant being “broken in" with the Eleventh Cavalry. His trials and tribulations are mingled wHIi Eliriniug ~a3veutu Pes on the border, %e making something now in screeii.. enter tainment. Prices, ■9d 6d.