ENTERTAINMENTS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2932, 5 September 1925, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

“PORTS OF CALL.”

“Ports of Call,” featuring- Edmund Lowe which is to be the leading- attraction at the Town Hall tonight, deals with the adventures of a castaway in the Phillipine Islands who wins his way hack to his hearth-stone and into the heart of the woman he loves, after a series of startling- adventures in strange ports, and among still stranger people. A native uprising and the imprisonment of whites in a burning plantation house are two of the many thrilling moments in “Ports of Call.” - A sunshine comedy: “Children Wanted,” a scenic, “Rivers of Song,” and the latest Pox News complete to-night’s programme. Prices as usual. Only such a master of characterization as Sinclair Lewis could have built up a “Babbitt,” typical of the average business man of practical exterior, whose heart is young with dreams of romance. And it is this story of “Babbitt” in all its realism and wist fullness that will be shown at the Town Hal! on Monday. Willard Louis and Carmel Myers are the leading players. A comedy, “.Julv Days” and the latest Pathe gazelle support the eight reel feature. i’rices as usual.

ROYAL PICTURES. To-night “Frivolous Sal," is to lie screened at (.lie Royal theatre, it is a story of the great outdoors wlie.ro brave men light for an existence and the women they love. A great picture, featuring Eugene O’Brien, Mae Busch, Ben Alexander (Tenrod), Mitchell Lewis and Tom Saniichi. This is truly a great cast hut such a picture deserves an excellent east. A rattling good comedy entitled “Wedding Bells” will also be screened. Trices as usual Dealing with a spectacular romance nud the piracy of the late Sixteenth Century, English, Spanish and Moors, “The Sea Hawk" to be screened on Monday night is reputed to possess an extraordinary amount of thrilling incidents, redblooded action and tender romance amid many quaint and massive settings. The transfer of Mr Sabatini’s epic to the screen has made necessary the expenditure of £BOO,000, the building of a Jleet of four mammoth sea craft of the Sixteenth Century, £20,000, in wardrobe and the use of over a thousand men in some of the brilliant naval combats; yet critics state “The Sea Hawk” is bigger than just the investment which has made it possible, indeed one of the truly great master-pic-tures of the lilms, with thrilling action and big situations to make each succeeding reel more fascinating than its predecessor.