ENTERTAINMENTS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3552, 19 October 1926, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS.

ROYAL PICTURES. Jimmy Valentine is famed in song and story as the champion safe cracker of all time, but in “Silver Fingers,” the exciting picture which will be serened at the Royal Theatre to-morrow night, “Shadow” Brice gives Jimmy a tough battle for first honours. An interesting feature of this unusual photoplay is that the action takes place on the very locale of the story. A Chinese rendezvous which is used in the picture is actually the most notorious Oriental dive on the Pacific Coast. Other major parts of the underworld back-ground are reproduced here with rare fidelity. George Larkin, the clever and athletic favourite of film fans, has the interesting role of “Shadow” Brice, a gentleman Raffles, who leads the police of two continents a merry chase. The picture is full of excitement. Pries as usual. POLA NEGRI AT THE TOWN HALL. Pola Negri in “A Woman of the World,” at the Town Hall to-mor-row evening, should please all patrons. For it is undoubtedly P ola’s best production, and one in which her exotic beauty, personal magnetism and peculiar personality find their greatest outlet. The story deals with a countess who visits her relatives in a country town in the United States. Her worldly mannerisms arouse the righteous indignation of the townsfolk, and some of them attempt to force her'to leave. However, the tables are turned' when the leader succumbs to her charms and falls in love with her. Comedy, screen snapshots, and News. Prices as usual. One of Rudolph Valentino’s last pictures, entitled “Cobra,” has been booked for Friday night. He is supported by Nita Naldi. Valentino appears as a dashing Italian count, a modern Don Juan, in this daring drama of Italy’s beauties and New York’s night clubs.