ENTERTAINMENTS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2762, 24 July 1924, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS.

‘/TRAPPED IN THE AIR.”

Rosinante, the immortal steed on which Don Quixote pursued his romantic advemurea, lias gone into ihr- limbo of forgotten things; so, also,: have faded away the bucking bronchos of Ihe cow boy adventurers, even the racing-.car and the speeding motor cycle are no' longer the things for the up-to-date school of adventurers. To-day it is the aeroplane that hears the dashing romantist on his quest of adventure. Lester Cunen, the hero of “Trapped in the Air,” the leading feature at the Town Hall on Saturday might, is an .airman engaged in the aerial mail service. The adventures that befall him on the occasion of his filial flight are breathless in their excitement. Interwoven is a love story. Comedy “Roaring Lions on a Steamship.” A gazette is also on the hill. Prices as usual.

On Monday next Wesley (Freckle*) Barry will be seen in his latest film .story “The Printer’s Devil,” supported by the comedy “High Life.” ROYAL PICTURES. Some idea of the startling magnitude of “The Fall of Babylon,” the latest Griffith super-picture, to be screened at the Royal Theatre to-, night, may be gained from the statement that it cost more than £130,000 to produce, is presented by a company totalling 125,000 men and women, and has 7,500 horses taking pari in the great chariot races and pageants attending the feast of Belshazzar. The great walls of Babylon, with their giant height of 300 ft. and t lie spacious boulevards built upon their tops, the wonderful halls in the Temple of Belshazzar and halls a mile in length all fo!w a. magnificent picture. Dont,’ miss it. It’s truly wonderful. On Friday night something altogether new ami different in the way of Western photoplays is offered in “ThelThree Buckaroos.” It is a Western icomedy-melodraina, with the comedy element scoring high, with a t'eteliing-love story and with' thrills enough for a serial. Extra “The Eagle’s iTalons.”