ENTERTAINMENTS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3514, 22 July 1926, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

ROYAL PICTURES. Mac Baseli, Pat O’Malley, Robert •Frazer, Wanda Hawley and Hobart Boswurlli are among those who play prineipal roles in the Mctro-Gold-wyn film version of Charles 0. Xorris s novel ‘“Bread,” which comes to the Royal Theatre to-morrow night. Extra: “Samson of: the Circus.’! He’s here—the great “I am.” He comes from the great open spaces whe.ro men are men and salesmen are “Go-Getters.” He’s a highpressure he-man— the great disciple of punch, pep and personality. Glenn Hunter in “The Little Giant.” But he comes a cropper in in this, laughable, though highly dramatic satire crammed with situations that will wring your heart and tickle your risibilities. It’s royal entertainment on Saturday. Comedy: “Eighteen Carat.” SYD. CHAPLIN IN “THE MAN ON THE BOX.” In “The Man on the Box,” the pictumation of the well-known novel and play of Harold MacGrath which is heading the programme at the Town Hall on Friday starred, impersonates a flirtatious starred, (impersonates a flirtatious maid in one sequence, a London “cabbie" in another, and a groom in another and like the same player’s success “Charley’s Aunt,” the laughs come fast and furious. As those who have read the story will remember the plot also has quite a number of thrilling episodes during the battle of wits between two secret service operators in their idiase for valuable plans. Alice Calhoun, David Butler and Helene Costello are in the big cast. Prices 1/- and 1/0, children “S)d and Gd. Tony and Tom Mix have the time of their lives supplying thrills in the screen adaptation of a famous Max Brand novel at the Town Hall on Saturday only. The picture title is “The Best Bad Man,” and is described as the .best western yet. Prices as usual.