ENTERTAINMENTS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3029, 29 April 1926, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

“THE IKON HOUSE” TO-NIGHT. All pioneering is drama tic, and the most dramatic moments in America’s history are presented in “The Iron Horse” the great special attraction screening at the Town Hall temporary pictures to-night and to-morrow evening. Played by a cast of (1000 players headed by George O'Brien and Madge Bellamy. “The Iron Horse” depicts the adventures of the pioneers who laid the first trans-continental railway from East to West of America These men who worked with rifles stacked handy to light off raiding Indians were protected by a band of hardy lighters headed by such well-known (diameters as Buffalo Bill, Kit Carson and Wild Bill Hickoek all of whom are prominent in the picture. “The Iron Horse” has been summed up by New Zealand critics as the only picture of recent years that has not only lived up to its advertising, but has surpassed it. Popular prices are being charged for the Pox ton session, viz. Adults 1/(1, children fid. KOVAL PICTURES. Romance and thrills abound in “The Fighting Cub,” Phil Goldstone’s melodrama of newspaper life which comes to the Royal the-, alre on Friday. An exceptionally tine cast headed by Pat O’Malley, Marry Carr, Wesley. Barry and Mildred Harris. Extra: “The Riddle Rider.”

“He Who Gets Slapped,” the picture screening on Saturday night, is said to be the finest picture ever made by the greatest of all character actors, Lon Chaney, in this he does not have one of liis grotesque make-ups such as appeared in “The Hunchback,” and “The Phantom of the Opera,” but is a clown in a circus who has to laugh whilst his heart is breaking. For pathos, comedy, and drama. There are few pitures to come up to it. No one should miss seeing Lon Chaney in this most unusual character, it is one of the new MetroGoldwyn specials.