ENTERTAINMENTS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3801, 5 June 1928, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS.

Thrills of the sort you see once in a lifetime are in store for motion picture patrons in “Men of Steel,” First National’s big steel photoplay, at the Town Hall Cabaret on Wednesday, with Milton Sills in the starring role. Sills has always been known as a “heman.” In past pictures he has been called upon to perform some difficult feats, but in “Men of Steel” lie surpasses anything he has ever done on the screen, both in scenes calling for strength and courage, and in acting. For example, there is a scene in which Sills and Victor McLaglen are trapped in a huge vat in a steel mill. A maniac is trying to dump a ladle of molten steel on their hea/ds. Sills catches hold !>f a lug- iron hook swung over the vat on a chain from a crane, and with McLaglen hanging to his feet is swung out of the vat, over masses of molten steel to safety at the other end of the big room. Usual Cabaret prices. ROYAL. A mad sixty-mile-an-hour automobile chase through dark city streets forms one of the thrilling moments in “One Woman to Another,” Florence Vidor’s newest Paramount starring vehicle, being shown at the Royal on Wednesday. This chase presents a startling finish to the story, and shows the leading man, Theidor von Eltz, daring death in running down another car which he thinks is being driven by (Miss Vidor after she has (led from his home following their exposure in a somewhat compromising situation. With “Scaied Pink” (Comedy), and News. Prices 1/- and children Gd. The favourite, Buck Jones, will head the bill on Saturday in the western special “Chain Lightning.