ENTERTAINMENTS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3506, 3 July 1926, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

— “IT IS THE LAW.” “It is the Law,” the big 8 reel melodrama at the Town Hall tonight, has its theme based on one of those queer twists in the law which ordains that a man cannot be tried for the same crime twice. Besides the many thrilling moments throughout the enactment of the picture, it bus one of the most stmlling climaxes ever written into any story for stage or screen. Arthur Hold, Herbert Heyes and Minn Palmer and Florence Dixon are the leading players. A Sunshine comedy “Money Talks” and the latest Fox News complete a first class programme. Prices as usual. Railway dramas have always pleased local pieturegoers so that Monday’s feature “The Midnight. Express,” described as the best type of film, should be specially welcome. A terrific train disaster lias been wonderfully filmed as the big scene, and supplies quite a heap of thrills. Elaine Hammerstein and Jack Richardson are the leading players. “The Midnight Express” with full supporting programme will be screened at usual prices. ROYAL PICTURES. Not only does “California Straight Ahead,” Reginald Denny’s latest Universal-Jewel starring production, at the Royal to-night, provide its audiences with more than the usual quota of laughs, but it also presents many valuable suggestions to ambitious motorists. Most of the action of the picture lakes place in and about an elaborately constructed motor house in which Denny is supposed to make a transcontinental trip. Richard Talmadge appearing Monday at the .Royal Theatre in a mile a minute thriller. Jimmy Maitin was “The Speed King”, of the world, the champion mo tor-cyclic racer. That’s Dick Talmadge in “The Speed King.