ENTERTAINMENTS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2891, 2 June 1925, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

-EMPTY HANDS." the leading picture ni 1 own Hail Calm vet to-morrow evening is different is putting it mildly . Hero is one of the most, unusual photoplays that has ever been Hashed * on tho silver -croon. It is a story of two highly civilized persons, a man and a woman who are thrown back on lheir own unaided resources as hum,-iti beings. They have to tackle tin' problem of keeping alive empty handed. Lost together in a forest without food or shelter, or means of livelihood, depending only on their own native resources they light a battle for existence that, in the end not only brings the necessities of life but a great love. Jack Holt and Norma Shearer are the leading players ia this novel photoplay. A two reel comedy “Pretty Soft," ami a Paramount News are other pictures on the programme. Cabaret Prices. Shirley Mason wears ten different costumes of the latest Paris i-rentions in -The French Lady," her latest drama, heading next Saturday’s programme at the Town Hall. Harold Goodwin plays leading male opposite Aliss Mason. ROYAL PICTURES. One of the strongest easts ever assembled to make a motion picture interprets the story of “Wine,". Universal-Jewel which will be shown in the Royal Theatre Wednesday. The picture is the screen version of one ol the most .sensational exposes ot the manner in which the American Volstead Act is violated. Hie story of the same name, by William Mae-ITarg, published in the Cosmopolitan magazine. Included in the east are Ulara Bow, Forrest Stanley, Robert Agnew, Huntly Gordon, Myrtle Siedinan, Leo White and Walter Long; Louis Gasnier directed. -The Thief of Bagdad,” starring Douglas Fairbanks, will he screened next week. In this picture, Douglas plays the pan of a ragged rascal, a hanger-on of the slum-ridden ed!,.es oT Bagdad. His incorrigible daring takes him to the royal palace where he meets the beautiful princess. Then begins a series of wildest adventures. Don’t miss it.