ENTERTAINMENTS

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3869, 10 November 1928, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS

TOAA’fN HALL.

A thrilling and forceful melodrama of a man’s filial devotion to his friend with a colourful background of French Algiers and the Algerian Desert is vividly depicted in the Universal-Jewel production, “A Man’s Past,” which screens at the Town Hall to-night. The action starts in the French prison on the Isle of St. 'Noir, 'where a once noted physician is serving a tenyear term for taking the law into his own hands and putting to death a patient suffering an incurable disease. The physician escapes to the mainland and is preparing to get out of the country when lie finds an old friend who has gone blind. Forfeiting his own desires, he stays with the friend and helps him to do his work. The story builds to a startling climax when the physician is recognized by a prison official and once more sees the bare prison walls facing him. How he eventually wins a complete pardon and the heart of the girl who has stuck by him, is one of the» most absorbing tales ever recorded by a camera. Also comedy, News and Scenic. Usual prices. A Buck Jones feature, “Blood will Tell,” will be. Monday’s attraction. Arrangements have been completed for a long night Cabaret, 8 p.m. to 1 a.m. next AVednesday. Pictures will be shown throughout and all election results screened. Newton’s Orchestra has been engaged.