ENTERTAINMENTS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3867, 6 November 1928, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS.

TOWN HALL. Imagine Chester Conklin, with his walrus moustache and trick eye glasses, wearing a full dress suit! Conkiin is one of the shining lights of a big formal ball in “Fools for Luck,” his Paramount team comedy with W. C. Fields, which comes to the Town Hall on Wednesday night, until someone steps on one of the swallow tails of his coat. And then the laughs become roars. Excitement, mirth and thrills chase each other in rapid succession through this fast moving comedy of intrigue, love and high finance in a small town. The story holds keen attention throughout, the situations are screamingly funny and the love theme creates sympathetic interest. Fields takes the part of 'the smooth promoter who comes to the small town expecting to get rich from the sale of worthless oil stock. Usual prices. Irene Rich will be seen on Friday in Clyde Fitch’s story, “The Climbers.” Usual prices. ROYAL. The management of the Royal theatre announce the screening of “The Circus of Life,” next Saturday. Pre-war Russia, with its iron rule its intrigues and plotting, and secret, of the Czar’s autocratic Government, conclaves of Nihilist revolutionaries, forms the background for this tensely moving drama. The story deals with the terrible privations of a beautiful young girl, who, rather than throw suspicion on her young husband, accepts the dreaded sentence of banishment to Siberia. Only a few can have the wildest conception of the terrors and hardships endured by Russian “political*’ prisoners sentenced to Siberia. In “The Circus of Life” these things art: most realistically portrayed, as is the girl’s thrilling escape and pursuit "over miles of snow-bound country. Marcella Albani, one of the most beautiful of Continental actresses, interprets the role of the young girl. “The Circus of Life is an unusual type of picture, and one that, should most certainly be seen.