ENTERTAINMENTS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3775, 3 April 1928, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS.

THE TOWN HALL,

As Elmer Finch, timid soul, who becomes a “roaring lion,” W. C. Field is said to have his funniest screen role to date in “Running Wild,” the feature at the Town Hall Cabaret on Wednesday. The laughs can easily be imagined when one knows that Field appears as a brow-beaten, unasserting husband. He is henpecked at home by a nagging wife and a pesty stepson, and stepped on in the office by a hottempered employer. Then suddenly everything changes. He is hypnotised and made to believe that lie’s a “roaring lion.” A complete change is effected. Elmer runs home, and breaks up a party, beats the boy before hurrying to the office where he butts in at a directors’ meeting and —that only starts telling what he does. Also comedy entitled “Short Socks,” and News. Cabaret prices. Friday “Slaves of Beauty.”

ROYAL. Corinne Griffith’s new First National production, “Into Her Kingdom,” coming to the Royal next Wednesday, is a dramatic and colourful picture. iCorinne plays the role of a Russian Grand Duchess and opposite her, as leading man, is Einar Hanson, the Swedish actor, who, becoming a Bolshevik, marries her, with the intention of inflicting a punishment worse than death. How he learns to love his wife when they are established in an American .home, provides one of the most powerful dramatic situations in this remarkable film. Also “Tin Ghosts,” comedy, Topical and Scenic. Prices 1/- everywhere, children 6d. More thrills than ever in “The Cat and the Canary,” which will be screened on Saturday. Don’t miss it.