ENTERTAINMENTS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 2982, 5 January 1926, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

ZANE GREY’S “LIGHT OF WES-

TERN STARS.”

Billie Dove, as tlije heroine in “The Light of Western Stars,” the Zone Grev thriller at the Town Hall on Friday had a rough introduction to the West. Her brother had promised to meet her, but instead a half drunk cowboy was there, and he insisted on marrying her, and forced the minister to fulfil his commands. That is the thrilling wav in which this action romance of the early West starts off and you will be thrilled right to the end. Jack Holt the cowboy, Noah Beery is a wily outlaw villian, and Alma Bennett make up the star cast. A comedy “His. First Honeymoon” and News will also be screened. Prices as usual.

Tom Mix in his great new role “Dick Turpin,” will head the programme at the Town Hall on Saturday night. It is the story of that famous Robin Hood of the highway —who robbed the rich' to give to the poor. Needless to say Tom Mix infuses the usual amount of speed and thrills into the picture. A big prize fight and the wild night ride are exciting episodes. Prices as usual.

ROYAL PICTURES,

The announcement that the Royal Theatre will show “The Tom Boy,” featuring Dorothy Devore and Herbert Rnwlinson to-night, is an event that local fans may well look forward to with relish. If past performances by this company mean anything it means that “The Tom Boy” should by all signs, be really entertaining and exciting and pleasurable.

Something of the plot divulged reveals that it is the story of a young girl as brave and daring as anv of her male companions, who practically single-handed succeeds in capturing a gang of notorious bootleggers thus freeing her old father from suspicion of being one of them. Centuarv comedy: “The Queen of Aces.” Two great trains coming together in a terrific crash, piling upon one another with a rending of iron and hissing of steam, erasing of timbers and a general holocaust of fire —such is the great thrill scene in “By Divine Right,” Elliott Dexter’s first Grand-Asher picture, produced by R, William Neill, which comes to the Royal Theatre next Friday (tomorrow). This scene is one of the pivotal points in the picture because from this wreck emerges the hero to change places with one of the victims and return under an assumed name to right the wrongs to vviiieh he lias been subjected.