ENTERTAINMENTS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3536, 11 September 1926, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

“HAVOC,” A GREAT FILM.

There are two kinds of “Havoc” in the picture of that name screening at the Town Hall to-night. There is the havoc caused by war, and the havoc caused by an unscrupulous woman. The story is not so much of the war as it is of the effect the war had on the world; the hysteria of all peoples affected by the conflict. It shows London, masking its sorrow and bitterness beneath an exterior of gaiety; a mad whirl of night life with conventions cast to the four winds. And it shows a women who brought havoc to innumerable, lives —who caused two life-long pals to become enemies so bitter that the one, a superior officer, sent his late pal, a subordinate, out to face certain i death by the enemy guns. George O’Brien, Madge Bellamy and Walter Maegrail head the cast. Usual prices. “This Woman” will be screened on Monday night. ROYAL PICTURES. A championship prizefight, in which will be seen the most realistic ring battle ever screened, is but ,'one of the big scenes in “His People,” coming to the Royal theatre to-night. This story is a story crammed full with tears and laughter, a human, moving narrative in which is revealed the pride and joy, the suffering and disappointments of a typical Ghetto family. The central figure is the stern, aged rabbi, which role Rudolph Shildkraut, dean of European actors, makes his first American screen appearance.

Situations, intensity interesting, plenty of them, punctuate the new play “What Fools Men,” to be screened on Monday night, which is peopled by such screen notables aS Lewis Stone, Shirley Mason, Barbara Bedford, Ethel Grey. Terry, David Torrence, John Patrick, and many others. The picture is a version of the novel, “Joseph Greer and His Daughter,” Henry Kitchcll Webster. •