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ENTERTAINMENTS.

TOWN HALL. If you are in search of a thrill, drop into the Town Hall theatre and see “The Limited Mail,” the Master Picture which screens on Friday, and you’ll get enough thrills to satisfy you and some to spare! Elmer Vance’s old-time melodrama, with its romantic story of the engineer who was the disowned son of a millionaire, gain's tremendously in effectiveness on tiie screen. The excitement of the mountain landslides and train wrecks made the audience gagp with excitement. Then the picture is screened with the majestic beauty of the Colorado mountains as a background-such a background as the stage could never suggest. Monte Blue is featured in the type role which first brought him into notice in the film world — the husky, virile hero, in this case a railroad engineer. Vera Reynolds, loaned to Warners by Cecil vie Mille for this production, makes an attractive little waitress, with whom the engineer falls in love. Also “Peggy’s Helpers” - (comedy), and Gazette. Usual prices. As realistic a prize-fighter as ever was filmed is one of the outstanding features of “Alias the Deacon,” the Universal-Jewel production starring Jean Hersholt, which comes to the Town Hall theatre on Saturday 7. Ralph Graves and Tom Kennedy are the principals engaged in the fistic battle, and three days were consumed in filming the fight. “Alias the Deacon” was directed by Edward Sloman, from an adaptation of the play of the same name.

ROYAL. / A picture of real entertainment quality, the Master Picture release, “Lost at Sea,” is at the Royal on .’Saturday. In the cast are such well-known players as Huntly Gordon, Jane Novak, Lowell Sherman, Natalie Kingston, Billy Kent Schaefer, Joan Standing and William R. Walling. The story tells of a young woman who is married to a mail Who is feared by both his wife "and little son. He enjoys himself dallying about the cabarets, where he has an affair with one of the principal dancers. Unknown to his wife, he goes on a business trip to Europe taking the dancer with him. The boat they are on is blown up and they are ostensibly lost. A former girlhood sweetheart, hearing of the disaster comes back, pays ardent court to the 'supposed widow and marries her. ’That same day the couple receive a message that her husband has been saved and is on-his way home. . The denouement of this rather novel situation is swift and dramatic. Also “Birthday Guests” (comedy), and Gazette. Prices 9d and 1/6. Children 3d and 6d. The big mystery special “The Cat and the Canary,” has been booked for early screening.

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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3773, 29 March 1928, Page 2

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435

ENTERTAINMENTS. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3773, 29 March 1928, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3773, 29 March 1928, Page 2

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