ENTERTAINMENTS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3779, 14 April 1928, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS.

i TOWN HALL. In “The Missing Link,” at the Town Hall to-night, Syd Chaplin presents something altogether different. Beginning as a discouraged young man with a fear complex he becomes entangled in the destinies of a famous big game hunter bound for Africa. By a ludicrous series of mishaps-, Syd is carried off on the same liner and when the hunter learns that desperate rivals are trying to do away with him he trickily persuades Syd .to be his substitute. After surviving a number of frightening episodes on the ship, they arrive in Africa, where the fun begins in earnest. With other pictures. Prices 1/- and 1/6, children 3d and 6d. Buck Jones will head Monday’s programme in “Hills of Peril,” a story of the round-up of a gang of moonshiners in the west of America. ROYAL. It is generally conceded there are more thrills to the reel in Hoot Gibson’s Universal-Jewel production, “Painted Ponies,” showing tonight at, the Royal Theatre than the sterling western star has ever offered in one picture before. In addition to a stirring drama that -keeps the audience in suspense, lightened with frequent laughter, there are shown a group of rodeo shots more exciting than anything that has previously been screened. Also “Buster’s Frame-up,comedy and News. Prices 9d and 1/6, children 3d and 6d. “Dance Magic” is the featue picture for next Wednesday at the Royal.