ENTERTAINMENTS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 2983, 7 January 1926, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

BANE GREY’S “LIGHT OF WES

TERN STARS.”

Billie Dove, as the heroine in “The Light of Western Stars,” the Zone Grey thriller at the Town Hall on Friday bad a rough introduction to the West. Her brother bad promised to meet her, but instead a half drunk cowboy was there, and lie insisted on marrying her, and forced the minister to fulfil his commands. That is the thrilling wav in which this action romance of (lie 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 ITood 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. Cent nary 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 “Bv Divine Right,” Elliott Dexter’s first Grand-Asher picture, produced by R. Wfilliam 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 vhe victims and return under an assumed name to right the wrongs to which he has been subjected.