ENTERTAINMENTS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2802, 25 October 1924, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS.

ROYAL PICTURES. Money is the root of all ibe evil goc..* to*, aid providing drama* tic interest in the latest Kaiberine MacDonald photoplay which is the current attraction at the Royol Theatre ti.-night. Car: Stockdale, Charles Clary, Margaret; Loomis and many oilier good players surround star in tel!/ g the stew that Carry Evans ha-. vrbt:n w4h the eap; bilibe iif lie stir- in mind while he was writing it. llo.r Luring prepared tin* continuity a l.Toin Forman, who has directed s • many ■ ; Hi • : essful Mac Doti;. d pictures, is responsible for tin exeelittil results achieved in lid-. production. A really good comedy by Bm-ter Keaton, entitled “Hard Luck” will also be screened. Prices Ud ami 1 ti. children as usual. There will lie no pictures on Monda \ night. owing to a concert being held on that night in aid of the Fire Brigade Queen candidate. On Tuesday night; “Gimmie” will be screened. Prices !)d and I/O, children as usual. Next Wednesday night the big special, entitled “Tile Fighting Ad veil I ore r” will be screened and on Saturday night patrons will have the opportunity of witnessing “Trilby." “THE WOLF MAN” From the first scene to almost Ihe last “The Wolf .Mail,” the John Gilbert picture at the Town Hall tonight, is a series of figlils. The story concerns a, young • Englishman who is a gentleman until he drinks. Then he becomes a beast. The trail ol tragedy takes him info the timber country in northern Quebec and Micro, after fighting bis weakness for a year, be eventually becomes his master and wins the girl of his choice. It is a dashing romance with a strong moral. The dual natures of a man essentially good, but whose most primitive passions rule, him when lie is under the influence of drink, are subject for a story which v.as written by Frederick and Fanny Hatton. The supporting pictures are the comedian on the bike, A 1 St. John and the latest Fox News. Usual prices, !)d and 1/0, children 3d and (id. There will be no pictures on Monday but at next Wednesday’s Cabaret the favourite, William S. Dart, will return to the Town Halt screen in “Singer Jim McKee.”