ENTERTAINMENTS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3855, 9 October 1928, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS.

TOWN HALL. “THE KING OF KINGS.” The pinnacle of screen art “The King of Kings,” will screen at the Town Hall to-night and to-mor-row evening. Here is no motion picture —here is something more — something infinitely greater. A simple story, an old story known to everyone —yet the most beautiful, the most dramatic, the most tragic in the history of the world. “The King of Kings” comes as no preachment —it simply sets down f he facts —and the facts visualized for you are ten times more powerful than they ever could be otherwise. “The King of Kings” was completed by Cecil B. De Mille after seventeen months of intensive work. What it cost does not matter. It has been accepted gladly wherever it has been shown for its delicacy, its great reverence, and for the power of the message it carries. Prices 1/6 and 2/6. Children 9d and 1/-. ROYAL. “A Hero for a Night,” Universal Production starring Glenn Tryon and with Patsy Ruth Miller in the main supporting role, has been booked by the Royal theatre to be shown on Saturday next. The picture has been acclaimed one of the most laughable farce comedies of the year and deals with- the efforts of a correspondence school aviator to fly across the Atlantic Ocean. He does eventually, but not when he intends to and not'before he has enough thrilling experience to keep him awake for months. Harry Hoyt, author of “Painting the Town,” also wrote the original story for this picture, thereby once more bringing together the four persons responsible for what critics concede to be the greatest surprise picture of last year. It is believed however, that “A Hero for a Night” will even surpass the other picture as a laugh producer. The supporting cast was carefully chosen and includes some of the best known personages on the screen to-day, among them being Lloyd Whitlock, Burr Mclntosh, Bob Milash and Ruth Dwyer.