ENTERTAINMENTS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 2998, 13 February 1926, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

EXCITING MELODRAMA AT TOWN HALL.

What is described as an amazing demonstration of the power of wo.man to destroy the power of man with the aid of the wiles and smiles which go with the activities of the lord of love, will be seen at the Town Hall to-night, when William Fox will present his latest photodramatic triumph, “Strathmore,” an adaptation from Ouida’s novel, What happens to an influential man in public Jife when he loses his head simultaneously with his heart is shown most graphically in this film, according to advance reports. Wyndham Standing is the man and Diana Miller is the woman while Gaylord Hobbs has an important role in the brilliant east. This is said to be one of the most intense love stories to ever'reach the screen, and, although there is a tragic note in it till, true drama of the dynamic variety predominates. Other pictures are “Papa's Darling’’ a special comedy, “Perfect View,” (scenic), mid Fox News. Prices as usual

F. Phillips Oppenheim’s novel of life in the picture colony, "Hollywood,” “The Hillman,” has been transferred to the screen under the title “Behold this Woman,” and will head Monday’s programme. A Mack Sennett comedy ‘Oxford Bags,” and Pathe Gazette are other films. Prices as usual. ROYAL PICTURES. The film is a tense and emotional yet highly amusing presentation of the Evils of American Divorce Laws. Rupert Hughes’ motion pictures have been characterised mainly by 7, and won their great popularity through, his Irish sense of humour and his peculiar gift for sensing comedy in the most emotional and dramatic of situations. Yet always underneath lias been the big dramatic situation with a punch. In his latest Goldwyn picture, written and directed by himself, “Renoj” which has been booked for screening at the Royal theatre to-night, lie has centred his attack on the problem presented on the dramatic side. It is tense and emotional to a degree which he has hitherto not attempted, yet is highly diverting, for he could not repress his tricksy humour if he were to try. In one state Guy Tappan finds that he is a bigamist; in another that he is not married at all; in a third he faces the attacks of three wives, all of whom are legally his. Throughout the picture runs an appealing love story, and this, with the gripping problem promises to make “Reno” one of the best pictures of th? year. Monday, Constance Talmadge in “Her Night of Romance.”