ENTERTAINMENTS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3820, 19 July 1928, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS.

TOWN HALL. A delightful screen fare for even the most discriminating of film patrons is provided in the Universal Jewel attraction, “The Count of Ten,” which will screen at the Town Hall on Friday. The story concerns the attempts of a promising young prize fighter to provide a worthy home and livelihood for his pretty young wife and her father and young brother. The two latter people are. the (law in an otherwise happy home, and when the young brother forges a cheque, requiring the immediate payment of an immense sum of money, and mislead the boxer by intimating that the money is wanted for hospital attendance on his wife, he is compelled to enter into a fight with a broken hand, after having quarrelled with his manager, who was against the fight. Needless to say, the hero loses the fight, and gets a terrific punishment. This brings his late manager to his side, and he exposes the family. The climax is very gripping, and rounds off a thoroughly entertaining picture. Charles Ray as the prizefighter, and Jobyna Ralston as his wife, play the principal roles. Also ‘TDancing Fools” and News. Usual prices. A railroad melodrama, “The Black Diamond Express,” will screen on Saturday.

ROYAL. ,

“THE OLD CONTEMPTIBLES.” The memorable days of August and September, 1914, will live gloriously in the history of England, but if, with passage of time, the vivid and human side of the story of the Old Contemptibles has dimmed a little, “Mons,” the all-British production which comes to the Royal Theatre on Saturdoy, brings back as no other medium could, the memory of those fateful days. This picture should be seen by every man, woman and child in the Empire, not only for its patriotic appeal, but because it warms the heart and stirs every emotion into action. Prices Is and Is 6d, children half price.