ENTERTAINMENTS

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3552, 21 October 1926, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS

RUDOLPH VALENTINO AT THE TOWN HALL.

One of the late Rudolph Valentino’s last productions, “Cobra,” will he seen at the Town,Hall tomorrow night. In “Cobra,” you have the screen’s greatest lover as the star of a stage play, which had a long run. Valentino plays a dashing Italian Count, a modern Don Juan, who falls in love with every beautiful wqman he meets. The plot hurls him into a. powerful dramatie situation, when the wife of his best friend, a cobra woman, played by Nita Naldi, falls in love with him. The east includes Casson Ferguson, Gertrude Olmstead, and Eileen Percy. Stories of (V racecourse are very popular with picture goers so that the appearance of “The Dixie Merchant,” at the Town Hall on Saturday night .Should please patrons. ROYAL PICTURES. The devastating power of a mighty avalanche that sweeps all before it, the epic courage of two men who fight step by stop right through a raging blizzard for help, the terrific suspense as the fiveengined relief train with its gigantic snowplough, cuts steadly through the storm swept and frozen mountains, the near tragedy ol two girls trapped in the snow-bound camp with men on the verge of insanity. They’re all in “The White Desert,” a wonderful gripping drama to he screened at the Royal Theatre to-morrow night; “Wolves of The North,” extra. On Saturday “The Still Alarm” will he screened. Full of thrilling and gripping scenes, depicting a terrible fire and the great fight put up by a fireman to rescue his own daughter from the flames. Comedy “A Flivver Vacation.”