ENTERTAINMENTS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3518, 31 July 1926, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

“THE ANCIENT AIARINER.” A line modern drama of simple folk and an over wise city bred adventurer is presented in Fox’s film “The Ancient Alariner,” based on Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poem of the same name, and heading tonight's programme at the Town Hall. The fantastic plot of the poem is skilfully shown in support of the dramatic sequence of the present day action. Earle Williams and Clara Bow are the leading players. A special comedy “Strong For Love,” a fine scenic and the latest news complete a programme of pleasing variety. Prices as usual. Monday’s film is a 1926 production of the follies and foibles of the present jazz-mad age in New York. Cullen Landis and Lillian Rich play the leads in this drama showing the consequences of the mad quest for pleasure. Comedy and gazette also. Prices as usual. ROYAL PICTURES. ' When Rex Beach wrote “The Goose Wloman” he founded the story on an actual murder which stirred the Eastern part of the United States about four years ago. Rex v Beach followed the murder very closely and then wrote a noyel solring the mystery after his own theory. This has been made into a motion picture and will be shown at the Royal theatre to-night as a Universal Jewel release. In the picture version Louise Dresser plays the part of the Goose AVoman, giving a moving portrayal of the opera singer who loses her voice and slips down the stream of intemperance, becoming a drunken slattern, to he regenerated only after the murder is perpetrated.