ENTERTAINMENTS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2895, 11 June 1925, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

“THE CYCLONE RIDER.” Lincoln .J. Carter, master writer of thrillers, has taken his pen in hand again this year and has turned out another melodrama “The Cyclone Rider.” Patrons no doubt recall this author’s previous successes “The Fat Mail” and “The Arizona Express.” “The Cyclone Rider," which comes to the Town Hall on Saturday, contains more thrills than either of last years pictures which is saying a great deal. Reed Howes ns Jim Kent an automobile raver, has the male lead in the picture, and Alma Bennett, as Doris Howard ha> the feminine lead. The plot centres around the demand by Doris's father that Jim show him £I.OUO within ton days in order to get his consent to marry his daughter. In those ten days you will find enough thrills to last you ten years. A comedy “Radio Riots” and the World’s News support the big feature. Fred Thomson, world’s champion all round athlete, will make his initial Foxton appearance at the Town Hall on Monday night in “The Dangerous Coward.” Like Tom Mix, Fred Thomson is supported in all his pictures by a finely trained horse, “Silver King.” A Snub Pollard Comedy “California or Bust” is also included in Monday’s programme. ROYAL PICTURES. No picture produced since the beginning of the moving picture industry lias at all approached the sensation achieved by Douglas Fairbanks in the glorious Arabian Nights fantasy, “The Thief of Bagdad.” Some of the outstanding features of this extraordinary production are: The Magic Carpet that sails across the house-tops, the undersea City of Crystal where sirens dwell, the Forest of Enchanted Trees, the Cloak of Invisibility, the Winged Horse that iiies up to and through the clouds, the Living Dragon in the Valley of Monsters. This marvelous production is hailed, not merely as a greater picture, but as a production that steps so far out of the beaten path that critics speak of it as “the creation of a new art.” “The Thief of Bagdad” will be repeated at the Royal to-night. “Cytherea.” a First National picture is to be screened at the Royal on Saturday night. Among the unusual features in this picture is a colour scheme that is used to emphasise the emotional efforts of the players. Three different hues are employed to bring out the moods of the episodes, vitalizing them to a degree heretofore unknown. In the east are such popular favourites as Lewis S. Stone, Alma Rubens, Norman Kerry, Irene Rich, Constance Bennett, Betty Bouton, Charles Wellesley and Lydia Yeamans Titus.