ENTERTAINMENTS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 2989, 21 January 1926, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

ROYAL PICTURES,

During the filming of "Phantom Justice,” the most talked-of photoplay of the current season, which comes to the Royal theatre on Friday, Richard Thomas, the young producer-director who is responsible for the production, was beseiged by attorneys with unsavory reputations and “fixers” in general to “lay of,” as they called it. Despite the help he received from the Los Angeles judiciary and the district attorney’s office there, every effort was made by the “interests” to discourage him in picturising a story that has called the public’s attention to the deplorable condition ill U.S. criminal courts. On account of its great value Mr. Thomas kept the negative in his stateroom and three _ times during his transcontinental' trip from Hollywood to the nation’s metropolis his stateroom was invaded by a man, who was finally apprehended and thrown bodily from the train. Comedy “Miss Cinderella.”

Bradley King has been engaged to make the adaptations of all forthcoming Corinne Grifiitli productions for First National. Her first work in this country was “Declasse,” which will be shown at the Royal theatre next Saturday. Other well-known stage plays which Miss Griffith has selected for translation to motion pictures and which will be adapted by Miss King are “Ashes,” which met with enthusiasm in New York, with Florence Reed playing the leading role, an “The NationaJ Anthem,” by J. Hartley Manners, played on the stage by Laurette Taylor, to he screened under the title of “The Marriage Whirl.” In “Declare,” taken from Ethel Barrymor’s recent stage success, Miss Griffith has a pretentious supporting cast, headed by Lloyd Hughes, Clive Brook and Louise Fazenda

TOM MIX IN "RIDERS OF THE PURPLE SAGE.”

Tom -Mix tits Ihe role of Jim Lassiter in the latest William Fox production, “Riders of the Pilrple Sage,” so perfectly that it seems Zanc Grey must have bad the cowboy hero in mind when lie wrote this, his greatest novel. It is a typical Mix role, with ample opportunities for Tony, his wonder horse, to share in the daring deeds of his master. “Riders of the Purple Sage,” will come to the Town Hall on Friday. It is a picturesque romance of the west of iorty years ago. Mix plays the role of a chivalrous soft-spoken cowboy who comes riding forth to avenge his sister, kidnapped by an unscrupulous lawyer. With supporting pictures this fine tilm will be screened at usual prices 9<l and I/O, children 3d and Od. Paris —gay capital of frolic and fun, broken hearts and blasted fortunes —forms the picturesque Locale of William Fox’s production of “She Wolves,” screening on Saturday evening. Paris —famed to the far corners of the earth for its eternal spirit of gaiety, with its feverish attractiveness concealing packs of she wolves —is vividly brought to the screen in this latest Fox attraction. A comedy “Say it with Flour,” scenic and News will also be shown Usual prices. A powerful, dramatic photodrama which throws a fierce searchlight on the modern marriage muddle, is “Her Marriage Vow,” the leading picture on Monday. A Ben Turpin comedy “Asleep at the Switch” and the latest Pathe Gazette complete the list. Usual prices.