ENTERTAINMENTS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3512, 17 July 1926, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

“LIGHTNIN”’ AT TOWN HALL. Madge Bellamy and Ethel Clayton are.included in the big east “Lightnin’,” adapted from the stage play of the same name and screening at the Town Hall to-night only. Jay Hunt'in the role of Lighnin’, Bill Jones the lovable tippler, who handles tiie truth rather carelessly, lives again and all will love him. The story is very dramatic with scenes full of bright and pleasing comedy with the evergreen J. Farrell McDonald of “Coporal Casey” lame prominent in. the humour. A special comedy “Scientific Husband” and News will he screened also. Prices as usual. On Monday the popular Western star, Fred Thomson, will he seen in “Thundering Hoofs,” a hurricane of action that is going to sweep you into a state of the tensest excitement, from the moment that the hero whips the bully for mistreating his horse, right up to the smashing climax showing the tremendous light between man and hull, there is Sot a second’s lull. A comedy “Ballroom Romeos,” and Path* Gazette complete the list. Usual Prices. ' ' ROYAL. Hoot Gibson a former Albertan eowpuncher, returned to the scene of his first triumphs at horsemanship to photograph his greatest effort as a motion picture actor: “The Calgary Stampede,” to he screened at the Royal Theatre tonight. Before he leaped to fame by winnig the Pendleton championship in 1912, Gibson was a cowboy in Oregon and Alberta, travelling from ranch to ranch, as jobs were scarce and usually obtainable only at branding or roundup time. _^ n “The Calgary Stampede” the Roman riding race is the climax of the story which brings about a little-expected turn of events. The picture was entirely photographed in Canada, the ranches used being those of 11. R. IL, the Prince of Whales, and Guy Weadick. Other exteriors were also shot in famous W’ainwright park, a government reservation where there are thousands of buffalo in the game preserve. These animals were used in the buffalo stampede scenes.