ENTERTAINMENTS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3886, 20 December 1928, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS.

TOWN HALL. Karl Dane and George K. Arthur, wandering through mysterious grottoes, amid weird mummies, sinister shadows and secret trapdoors that hurl the ever-green stars of “Rookies,” “Baby Mine,” and “Circus Rookies” into the bladk depths, will make their bow in “Detectives” a new and very hilarious type of comedy at the Town Hall theatre on Friday. “Detectives” is a (MetroGold wyn-Mayer mystery story with all the thrills of an excellently produced crook drama- —and the comedy introduced by Dane and Arthur, the former a house detective, and the latter as a bellboy at a fashionable hotel, both blundering innocently into one thrilling situation after another, is undoubtedly the laugh of that year. Spice and sparkle is added to the incessant fun by a pretty stenographer, also employe*! at the hotel' for whose love our heroes make interminable war, in fact, what they do to each other is a shame. With supporting pictures at usual prices. George O’Brien has a fine role in the big prison reform story “Honour Bound,” which heads a fine hill at the Town Hall on Saturday.

ROYAL. Never has the inside workings of 41 metropolitan police force been so vividly portrayed as in “The Shield of Honour,” the Universal Production which comes here on Saturday at the Royal theatre. Dan MacDowell, veteran officer and his son .Jack, who is to be the first flying officer in the force, are being honoured at a celebration of the addition of the aviation division to the department. Gwen O’Day, daughter of a wealthy jeweller, christens the new plane and Jack immediately becomes interested in her. Shortly after the celebration O’Day asks Jack to assist him in solving the disappearance of numerous diamonds which his customers have been losing. After much research Jack places suspicion on Robert Chandler, 0 Day s business adviser but evidence is not sufficient to press the charges. In the meantime Dan MacDowell has his sixty-fifth birthday and through a new regulation he is retired from the force but lie is quite active and O’Day gives him a position as a night-watchman in his jewellery store. Here Dan works with Jack on the ease and numerous clues lead to the exposure of Chandler’s nefarious operations. Jack soon discovers that Rose, a stenographer in O’Day’s store, and Red, the janitor, are also members of the Chandler’s gang and when they make a final raid on O’Day’s diamonds he corners Chandler with the goods. Prices 9d .and 1/6. Children 3d and 6d.