ENTERTAINMENTS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 2991, 28 January 1926, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS.

ROYAL PICTURES

The newspaper followers of the discovery of King “Tut’s” tomb by the late Carnarvon at Luxor will be interested in the announcement of the Royal theatre, the “The Dancer of the Nile,” a fiery photodramatic romance of the earlier days ol: King “Tut” will play at that theatre on Friday. The story of the production is a direct result of the discoveries that are said to have caused Lord Carnarvon’s death. This death has baffled science and has divided some of the greatest scientists of the day over its cause. Many lay it direct to the curse of ancient Egypt, for disturbing the tombs of its monarehs, while many others lay it to a poisonous insect bite. In either case the discovery is one of the most remarkable of the century and because of its unusual interest caused William P. S. Earle to ti'avel from California to Egypt to get facts and figures on which to build the mammoth photoplay he contemplated making on this subject.

Imagine a list containing the following items, handed to you to be secured on quick notice: ten live lions, two aeroplanes, a trained duck, a cannon, six wind machines, a trained mule, and several hundred assorted and unusual “props.” That was the property man’s problem for Chadwick Picture “The Wizard of Oz” which with Larry Scmon as the famous scarecrow is showing at the Royal theatre on Saturday.

“THE LAST MAN ON EARTH.”

“The Last Man On Earth,” an amusing seven reel film story of life a generation hence, heads the bill at the Town Hall on Saturday next. This picture presents the unique situation of a world suddenly denuded of all men through a strange disease cajlled “masculitis.” For ten years women explorers kept up a search for an adult male hut without success until a woman crook stumbled upon a hermit living far away from civilisation in the depths of a large forest. She takes him back and sells him to the nation. From this point on the story develops a series of surprises that are as amusing as they are thrilling. Earle Fox, favourably remembered as Van Bibber, plays the last man, and is supported by a east, of one thousand beautiful girls. Fred Thomson, the new athletic western star and his horse “Silver King,” wil re-appear ot the Town Hall on Monday in “Galloping Gallagher,” an adventurous tale of the Mexican Border.