ENTERTAINMENT.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3718, 17 November 1927, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENT.

“A SON OF THE SHEIK.” “The Son of the Sheik,” the special picture which screens at the Town Hall on Friday night, is a chip off the old block. Rudolph Valentino’s much-heralded sequel to the picture which brought the name “sheik” into repute all 'over the world proves that while a son may be like his father, he oftentimes is much wilder. The original sheik was content to sweep a lady fair off her feet with passionate embraces, then talk her into leaving the fogs of old London for the sandstorms and romantic nights of the desert; the son, however, is a faster worker; he falls in love on sight, gets tangled up with his sweetheart’s henchmen, then, in revenge, kidnaps the girl and drags her away to his tent. But the son has certain redeeming qualities which were absent in the makeup of sheik senior. The youth becomes consciencestrickpn and decides to send the lady, a professional dancer, and all round heart-breaker, back to her people, but en route a villainous Moor does a little kidnapping on his own account and emphasises his detennination to keep her by murdering her father. Prices 1/-, and 1/6, children as usual. On Saturday night Rin Tin Tin appears in “A Hero of the Big Snows.” „