ENTERTAINMENTS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2866, 2 April 1925, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS.

DUSTIN FARNUM AT TOWN HALL. Frontier days in their most interesting and romantic phases are the background of Dustin Farnum’s latest starring vehicle, “Kentucky Days,” which heads a fine programme at the Town Hall on Saturday next. It is a vivid story the 49-ers, with all the virile aspects expected of all Farnum features. Margaret Feilding, who played Mabel in “If Winter Comes,” is the feminine lead. Others in the cast are Bruce Gordon and William Do Vaull. Ai. St. John, the line comedian, will be seen in his latest comedy, “A Tropical Romeo,” and a World’s News is also on the bill to be presented at usual prices. “Smoke Eaters,” the fire department calls those firemen who enter death’s gate to save flame imprisoned lives! “The Midnight Alarm,” showing at the Town Hall next Monday, is described as the greatest picture ever written around these heroes. Percy Marmont, Alice Calhoun and Cullen Landis arc the leading players.

ROYAL PICTURES. Jack Dempsey, world’s heavyweight champion, is too used to tights to he much thrilled by watching one. They’re move or less a matter of business with him, but he got an entirely new thrill out of a tight at Universal. City when he viewed the spectacular bout staged by William Desmond and Albert J. Smith in Desmond’s new feature "Big Timber,” to be screened at the Royal Theatre on Friday. Desmond, as a (construction superintendent of a railroad, and Smith, as leader of the workmen plotting to delay the work, staged a light with bare knuckles before a crowd of several hundred woodsmen and railroad workers. “I never saw a light that thrilled me so,” declared Dempsey, after the fray was over. "Of course 1 realise that a light staged for a picture is so arranged to get the maximum of thrill out of it, bin 1 always imagined the actors pulled their blows aud faked the hard stuff.”

If the two million readers of Harold Bell Wright’s “When a Man’s a Man” go to see the screen version of the sLory, they will see the real Cross-Triangle Ranch, the leal bunk-house, the real eorrall and Thumb Butte Mountain of the story. The photoplay was made in Williamson Valley, Arizona, about which the story is written. The Western atmjosphere of the picture is correct in every detail, because it is the real thing. To be screened at the lioyai on Saturday.