ENTERTAINMENTS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3833, 18 August 1928, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

TOWN HALL. “The Thirteenth Juror,” a Uni-versal-Jewel production, with an alb-featured cast headed by Francis X. Bushman and Anna Q. Nilsson and directed by Edward Laemmle, has been booked by the Town Hall as the feature attraction to-night. The picture is a screen version of Henry Irving Dodge’s celebrated stage play, “Counsel for the Defence,” and is said to be the greatest drama of its kind ever screened. It deals with the efforts of a famous criminal attorney to avoid the consequences of ’his own crime by defending an innficent man. “The Thirteenth Juror” affords Bushman his finest vehicle since “Ben Hur” and he is said to reach emotional and dramatic heights in this picture that even outshine that famous epic of the screen. Also “Rushing Business” (Comedy), News, etc. Usual Prices. Monday’s picture is a pleasing drama, “The Honeymoon Express,” with Irene Rich in the lead. Usual prices. '• The box plan for “Ben Hur” which screens on Thursday and Friday next opened at Beath’s today, and intending patrons are advised to make sure of a good seat by booking early. ROYAL. P. C. Wren’s “Beau Geste” is the big attraction at the Royal to-night. The atmosphere of the Sahara with its chitting, sliding sand hills, the tvek of the legion forces across the '

s teaming desert sand with the sweltering legion sires tramping in a march that seems endless. These scones are so faithful that the hot fetid breath of the desert seems to rise to you in the theatre. Through it alj in a romance, a mystery and a theme of brother love that will make you throb with the realism and life of it. “Beau Geste" is a story of the French Foreign Legion, that famous band, a heterogeneous mass of humanity, in whose ranks swarm adventurers, heroes, criminals and romancers. That is setting. Into this atmosphere comes the love of three brothers, a love that borders almost on idolatry, with a mystery about a stolen jewel. Director Brenon has breathed the spirit of adventure and romance, mystery and action into the thrilling tale as told by P. C. Wren. Ronald Column, Neil Hamilton, Ralph Forbes, Alice Joyce, Mary Brian, Norman Trevor, Noah Beery, William Powell and Victor MeLnglan are the stars in the east. Prices 1/- and 1/6. Children half price.