ENTERTAINMENTS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3583, 6 January 1927, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

‘•STELIA DALLAS.” A WOMAN’S

LOVE LIFE, v

“Stella Dallas,” screening at the Town Hall to-morrow evening, is a cleverly conceived and perfectly enacted drama, one that wilL live in the memory of when a thousand other's have Hong been forgotten. “Stella Dallas”'is; a deeply pathetic story of human frailty. Its action revolves round a central character, Stella, whose love life is an eventful romance, fired with a zest for the better things of life, and tinged with the pathos of her hopeless errors. The big cast includes Belle Bennett, Alice Joyce, Ronald Column, Lois Moran and Douglas Fairbanks, jnr. Owing to its great length (11 reels) patrons are advised to be seated at 8 sharp; On Saturday “The Shamrock Handicap” will be screened. ROYAL PICTURES. “Winds of Chance,” the big First National screen version of Rex Beach’s novel of the Alaskan gold rush, will be screened at the Royal Theatre to-morrow night. Nine of the best known international stars are featured, foremost among whom are Anna Q. Nilsson, Viola Dana, Ben Lyon, Victor McLaglen and Hobart Bosworfch. Mass Nilssopisv seen as the Countess Courteau, a- brilliant business woman, who . dared the hardships of the Arctic and cast her lot with thousands of men in the great gold rush. A really fine picture. Ou Saturday night “The Set Up,” stalling' Art Aeord, .will be, presented. Alta Allen plays opposite Acord and proves herself, to lie a particularly sweet little leading lady. The picture is full of exciting scenes, including smash-ups, hard riding, fighting and stunts the like of which have made Art famous the world, over. ~