ENTERTAINMENT.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3709, 27 October 1927, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENT.

LON CHANEY IN “MR. WU.” Twenty-five girls, charming examples of Oriental femininity, in their gaudy brocades and silks, appear in the gar.den scenes in Lon Chaney's new starring vehicle “Mr. Wiu,’' coming to the Town Hall on Friday. And —with one exception—not one of them can speak the Chinese language. This is what the Occidental education has done for the third generation of overseas Chinese. The new Metro-Gold wynMayer picture, adapted from the Oriental mystery novel by Louise Jordan Miln, is a dramatic story of China, in which Chaney plays “Wu,” the sinister mandarin, working out a strange revenge on' an English family and Renee Adoree, in a make-up almost as outre as his own, plays his daughter. The cast includes Louise Dresser, Gertrude Olmsted, Holmes Herbert, Claude King, and others of note. Also ; “Back to Mother” (comedy), News, etc. Usual prices. Buck Jones, as the roving cowboy in “Desert Valley,” his latest starring drama for Fox Films, which is showing at the Town Hall on Saturday, gives a rough and tumble portrayal in a struggle to protect a desert Avater supply against the machinations of an unscrupulous land promoter. Fist fights are frequent. Buck gains a triumph on behalf of the cattlemen. Usual prices.