ROYAL PICTURES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 2987, 16 January 1926, Page 3

ROYAL PICTURES.

One meal a day—keeps the doctor away, at least it has succeeded in keeping the well-known sawbones from the domicile of George Walsh, Goldwyn player, for over two years. For a while the leading man faced a problem. He was slated to play the part of Raphael Valentin in “Slave .of Destiny,” which is showing at the Royal theatre to-night. Valentin, in the famous story, was an aesthetic dreamer, thin-faced, with gleaming eyes and jet black hair. Walsh qualified for everything but the thin face, and he did not know how he was going to get thinner as lie was in the pink of condition and rated as one of the best all-round atheletes in the country. He did so, however, by limiting himself to one meal a day.

“The Spider and the Rose,” showing on Monday, a fast moving romance of the days when California was young, has a wonderful all star cast of iuternationl favourites, headed by Alice Lake, Gaston Glass, Louise Fazenda, Noah Beery, and Robert McKiiu. The settings are big and rich, particularly the exlerives. The time is back in the romantic days when the Spaniards dominated south California. It is a beautiful picture all through, and the acting is superb, as one would expect from such a east. Some of Ihe scenes are brilliantly coloured, which add much to their beauty. The picture is one of those rare ones which remain for years in your memory.