ENTERTAINMENTS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3766, 13 March 1928, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

TOWN HALL.

Douglas Mac Lean has a harem! For the first time in his screen career, the smiling comedian has an opportunity in “Soft Cushions,” his latest Paramount comedy, to surround himself with a bevy of feminine beauties, and he takes full advantage of this chance in the unique picture which will be the feature at the ToAvn Hall Cabaret on Wednesday. “Soft Cushions” is a rollicking story of Arabian Nights love and intrigue, through which Mac Lean SAvaggers his way in a series of funny episodes. As a daring young thief, he invades the sacred harems, avoos the most beautiful slave girl, is arrested, imprisoned and sentenced to death, escaping each time by his nimble Avits, to Avin fortune and the girl. With other pictures at usual Cabaret prices.

On Friday evening the Wellington Artillery Band will present a specially selected programme of music, Avhieh they have had in preparation for some time. The reature picture “The Road to Romance,” with Ramon Novarro in the leading role will also be screened, making up a unique entertainment. Further particulars of AA’hich Avill be given in Thursday’s- issue.

ROYAL. “An army of pretty women!” is a statement that just misses being an actual fact in “Lost at the Front,” a hilarious war comedy of an entirely new sort that will feature the entertainment bill at the Royal Theatre on Wednesday. It misses because a few of the women in the feminine army used in the picture are plump, a few grotesquely angular. But the majority who appear in scenes in which the famous Russian Battalion of Death figure, are Pulchritude itself! “Lost at j the Front,” directed by Del Lord, costars George Sidney and Charlie Murray. The principal locale of the story, which Frank Griffin wrote, is the Russian front during the World War. Murray upsets all his previous comedy records'; as an Irish policeman \yho gets tangled up in the Russian army. George Sidney, of “Potash and Perlmutter” stage fame, also outdoes himself as Murray’s comedy team mate, in the role of a German reservist called to the front. In riotous action that includes the Battalion of Death, llowever, Sidney and Murray, “flee” under various flags, and even submit to examination as candidates for the feminine battalion. Miss Kingston appears as Olga, a Russian sculptress. The picture abounds with mirth from beginning to end. Also “Queen’s Wild” (comedy), Scenic. Prices 1/- everywhere. Children 6d. On Saturday the dare-devil aviator Al. Wilson will be featured in the aerial drama “Sky High Saunders.”