ENTERTAINMENTS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3019, 6 April 1926, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

ROYAL PICTURES.

Claire Windsor, the stage’s most beautiful blonde, appears as “Nellie” in the screen success of that name, to be shown at the Royal Theatre on Wednesday evening. The handsome Edmund Lowe is her sweetheart. Jack Carroll, Mae Marsh and Lew Cody are also starred in this colourful and highly dramatic drama of the silversheet. This photoplay will appeal to Foxton picture patrons who like a screen play that is packed with action and thrilling and spectacular scenes. The manager also anounces the special engagement for Wednesday, Friday and Saturday nights of Walter Vernon and his pal Ginger, the world famous entertainers with ventriloquism, comedy, monologues and solos. Air. Vernon comes with a great reputation from the J. C. Williamson’s and Fuller’s curcuits. “THE SPANIARD.” “The Spaniard’s” in town. He’s a mighty new kind of lover. A 1926 edition of “The Sheik.” Its Ricardo Cortez’s new screen role in the Paramount picture screening at the Town Hall temporary pictures tomorrow (Wednesday) evening. “The Spaniard” has to do with the taming. of a beautiful English girl, a born flirt, by a bull fighter who turns out to be a Spanish nobleman. Jetta Goudal and Noah Beery are the supporting cast. Big bullfighting scenes are prominent throughout “The Spaniard” to be screened at usual prices. Adults 9d, children 3d.

For Friday and Saturday the special stage melodrama “Thunder Mountain” has been secured. This is an 8-reel drama of life in a circus and away back in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Madge Bellamy, Paul Panzer, Jasu Pitts and Leslie Fenton play the important roles. Thrilling scenes are interspersed with'comedy ’’throughout this, one of this year’s great pictures. '-