ENTERTAINMENTS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3026, 22 April 1926, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS.

ROYAL PICTURES.

Three film editors working with Rupert Julian, director of the feature, assembled “The Phantom of the Opera,” playing to-night at the Royal theatre, Lon Chaney’s spectacular successor to “The Hunchback Of Notre Dame,” Gilmore Walker, chief editor for the Julian unit, has with him Edward Curtiss, cutter of a number of recent Universal features, and an assistant. “The Home Maker,” a wonderfully realistic screen play of home life in America with its many little tragedies and comedies vividly portrayed, comes to the Royal theatre Friday, as a Universal-Jewel King Baggot release. Centuary comedy: “Crying for Love.” Also Sam Stern, the great English comedian. “THE FIGHTING HEART.” If Larry Evans had written his interesting story, “Once to Everyman” with the sole view of providing a motion picture vehicle for George O’Brien, the athletic star, he could not have done better. As “The Fighting Heart,” this drama will head the programme at the Town Hall temporary pictures on Friday and Saturday. In the role of Denny Bolton, O’Brien plays a shy country boy who goes to New York and becomes a prize fighter. “Soapy” Williams, the town bully, who becomes heavyweight champion, defeats him in the ring. Denny meets Williams again, however and thrashes the prize lighter when Soapy mentions his sweet" heart disparagingly. “The Honeymoon Limited,” and Fox News are on the same programme. Betty Balfour will make her final appearance in a “Squibs’” role on Monday in “Squibs, M.P.” A delightful laugh picture in which this great picture character rises from the Hour seller to M.P. A Mack Sennett comedy “Scarem Much,” and Pathe Gazette will also be screened.