ENTERTAINMENTS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2957, 3 November 1925, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

* SPECIAL ELECTION PROGRAMME AT TOWN HALL.

Having made special arrangements with the Returning Officer to have Ihe results of the election throughout New Zealand posted downstairs and screened, the Town Hall management has decided to put on a 4-hour picture and cabaret entertainment to-morrow evening. This will enable patrons to enjoy a picture programme or dance in comfort whilst awaiting the various results. There will he no increase in prices, 1/- adults and fid children, admitting for the whole show, 8 till midnight. Heading the picture programme is the production “Sackcloth and Scarlet” from the popular novel of the same name by George Gibbs. The story is one of two orphan sisters, one of the home loving kind, and other jazz mad, thoughtless. The picture has to do with 14io trials and sacrifices of the older girl watching over, caring and catering for her sister. The other feature is a seven veeler “The Hill Billy” starring Jack Bickford. This is an exciting drama of life amidst the mountains of Kentucky in the black hear country. Other films on the giant programme are a two reel comedy “A Fat Chance,” “Sugar Cane growing jn Australia,” and the Paramount News. Prices 1/- everywhere, children fid. ROYAL PICTURES. All of the girls young Jack Herrington knew were petters. The continual round of jazz parties that had gained for the great home of his parents the name of “The Herrington Road House” left nothing to he desired in the petting line. Jack Herrington became infatuated with the beautiful daughter of a former saloonkeeper from the nearby village. But she was not a pettor. She liked the youth, though, despite her father’s condemnation of him and all his tribe. But the youth lied to her once. She lashed him across his handsome face with a whip, and left him. Flow far that slash went to bring hack to sanity the Herrington family is the dramatic beginning of the end of a sensationally true story of modern life in the homes of those of wealth, which is told in convincing manner in “The Mjad Whirl,” UniversalJewel All-star prduction with May Jewel all-star production with May shown in the Royal theatre on Wednesday. Election results by radio, io.