ENTERTAINMENTS

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2950, 17 October 1925, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS

A DANGEROUS PASTIME,

“A Dangerous Pastime,” the leading picture in a fine week-end programme at the Town Hall tonight features Lew Cody, Elinor Fair and Irving Cummings. This film has quite a novel plot of a romantic nature containing several thrills and quite an element of comedy. The adventures of Barry Adams a young man with a compelling desire to try everything and anything once just for fun makes first class pictorial entertainment. A .Sunshine Animal comedy, “Roaring Lions at Home,’’ “Fur Trappers” an educational film and Fox News, complete the programme screening at usual prices. Marie Prevost and Monte Blue take leading parts in “Daughters of Pleassure” a film dealing in unique and amusing manner with the flapper problem which will head Monday s list at the Town Hall. A Snub Pollard comedy, “The Green Cat, “Urban Movie Chat” and Pathe Gazette also. Prices as usual.

George Melford, the screen’s greatest producer of melo-master-pieecs gives us in Ethel M. Dell s ‘•The Top of the World” his finest love thriller since “The Sheik.” It is a dramatic story of the African Veldt, with the most astonishing flood scenes ever filmed. Next Wednesday is the screening date. No increase in prices.

ROYAL PICTURES. A Tom Mix special will be screened to-night entitled “First Shot Parker.” On Monday night a picture that lifts the lid from new York's underworld: “Grit,” a masterpiece melodrama depicting gang life as it was on the old Bowery will he screened. Thrills in the underworld fights, heart throbs in the struggle ot good against evil, humour in the picturesque life along the crowded streets of the Ghetto and New York's East Side. Imagine a world —a lost world millions of years old —found by an exploring party. Imagine this world —just as it was when this earth began with gigantic Dinosaurs roaming it. Imagine also the prehistoric man living in it—lighting for his life at every turn —fighting menacing apemen in the tree-tops —lighting monstrous animals that hunted him down to devour him. See “The. Lost World” at the Royal on Wednesday. “Secrets of the Night” UniversalJewel will be" screened on Thursday night.