ENTERTAINMENTS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3844, 13 September 1928, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

TOWN HALL. “White Flannels,” the Warner Master Picture which comes to the Town Hall on Friday, has another great mother role for Louise Dresser, who plays poor Ma Broslca, the wife of a Polish miner. Ma Broska has seen young college men at the homes of the mine operators where she goes to do day’s work. Their natty clothes, their unhardened hands, 'their careless jaunty ways, even* their; speech so different from that she has been used to hear, fills her with the determination to is end her son to college, whether he will or not. Frank Broska, played by Jason Robards, is a boy who likes his job. He loves a village girl, and has a pal, a miner, too, rough-and-ready as himself, but Ma wills that all this be changed. She learns, when almost too late, that education is not necessarily of schools, and that it takes more than what she calls “white flannels” to make a gentleman. With comedy, News etc., at usual prices. The big laugh special, “The Cohens and Kellys in Paris,’ should send a crowded audience away in fits of laughter next Saturday. ROYAL. On an island of such , a character as Iceland, it stands to reason that unique scenes were secured by A. E. Coleby for the big Stoll special production from Sir Hall Caine’s novel, “The Prodigal Son.” When the picture is shown at the Royal or. Saturday, the public will gaze upon scenery which never before has appeared upon the screens of any country, obtained at the risk of a number of precious lives. Yet these scenes are entirely incidental to the story. And Iceland, for all the terrific part it played in the lives of the producer and his assistants and artists, provides but part of the back-ground to this wonderful production. Stewart Rome plays the part of “The Prodigal Son,” and is supported by a big cast. Priees ( 1/- : and 1/6. Children half price: 'a -f