ENTERTAINMENTS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2876, 28 April 1925, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

ROYAL PICTURES. j Should circumstantial evidence be | relied upon to convict of a serious i crime.’ This is an issue which is I mised in "Scarred Hands," the motion picture of a man and a girl battling against the forces of the Western “oil pirates," which comes to tlie Royal Theatre to-morrow. Cliff Smith, who directed Bill Hart in 57 pictures, takes the part of "Smiling Tom" Stephens, and Eileen Sedgwick that of Jane, his sweetheart, daughter of Sherie Wheeler. Jack lloxie, always a good horseman in his western pictures, does some of tht* hardest riding of his career in "Fighting Fury," the Universal picture coming to the Royal Theatre next Friday. Helen Holmes is the heroine, and other players supporting lloxie include Duke R. Lee, Fred Kohler, Josef Swickard, Art Manning and George Connors.

"THF, SIDESHOW OF LIFE." War played many strange pranks. The clerk found himself in command of his boss, and in “The Sideshow of Life,'’ adapted from William d. Locke’s novel, “The .Mountebank," we iind the story of a clown in an obscure French circus who became a brigadier. As a brave and honoured soldier, he loved a girl, but the declaration of peace, with the thoughts of having to go back to the old job, he found his hopes wrecked. What would he do.' The absorbing human romance of "The Sideshow of Life," to he seen at the Town Ilall Cabaret to-morrow evening tells you. Supporting pictures arc “The Boxcar limited," ;t comedy, and the latest. Paramount News. Cabaret

prices. "Does It Pay.’" a seven-reel feature, will head next Saturdays programme. The story tells of the price a man pays for exchanging the peace and security of a home "here lie is loved and respected, for a. new wife and an establishment where extravagance, feverish exeitment and deceit drive happiness out of the door. ‘‘Why Pay Kent" is Saturday’s Sunshine coined v.