ENTERTAINMENTS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3025, 20 April 1926, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

“THE MANICURE GIRL.’’ • Bebe Daniels popular player of pleasing’ roles will be welcomed at the Town Hall Temporary pictures to-morrow evening in “The Manicure Girl,” the story of. a young lady and her adventures with her customers at the manicure table, and her boy friends. Naturally comedy scenes predominate in the picture although the plot of the writers, Frederick and Fanny Hattond is quite new and surprising. A comedy, travelogue and the latest Australian News are also screening to-morrow evening. Larry Evans’ novel “Once to Every Man" has been adapted to the screen as the “Fighting Heart” and will bead Friday’s programme at the Town ITall. George O’Brien has the role of the young lumber camp worker, who enters the roping ring and becomes world's champion after almost being knocked out by the White Lights of Broadway. Next week picturegoers will have the long awaited opportunity of making the acquaintance of “The Iron Horse," the record breaking story of the making of the transcontinental railway in America. ROYAL PICTURES. THE “PHANTOM OF THE OPERA.” Musical rehearsals were si aged for a motion picture— at Universal City. They rehearsed chorus, principals and orchestra, as well as a ballet of two hundred girls’, for the gala performances of “Faust”, staged in the reproduction of the Paris Opera, in a week’s time, as one of the big scenes in “The Phantom of the Opera,” which Rupert Julian produced as Lon Chaney’s successor to “The Hunchback of Notre Dame,” and which comes to lhc Royal Theatre Wednesday and Thursday. The action in the story lies about the abduction of Christine the singer, by “The Phantom,” and is all coincidental with a performance of “Faust” oil the stage, and while the opera is being sung, Lon Chaney and Mary Philbin will go through thrilling parts in the story. A full orchestra of a hundred pieces, such us is employed in the Paris Opera House, a full cast of the opera, and the authentic stage settings were used, while the boxes and auditorium were needed for this latter item alone.