ENTERTAINMENTS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3895, 15 January 1929, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS.

TOWN HALL. Richard Dix Avill be seen at the Toavii Hall on Wednesday in a corking sporting drama “Wjarming Up.” Those Avho remember the same star’g success in “The Quarterback,” “The Shock Punch” and “Sporting Goods,” will Aveleome another lively picture Avith plenty of the real Dix action. Dix is supported by a big cast of athletes and needless to say there is any amount of fun as well as romance in ‘Warming Up.” Also /Screening: “Scrambled Weddings’ (Comedy), “Blake of Scotland Yard” (Serial), News and Scenic. Usual prices. Chester Conklin, hailed by many as the screen’s outstanding comedian, plays the role of a subway guard who falls in front of a subway train and wakes up to find himself a hero, in First National’s “The Big Noise,” which comes to the Town Hall on. Thursday. “The Big Noise,” from the prolific pen of Ben He'cht, deals Avith the poAver of the press in connection Avith_ politics throughout the country and depicts to a remarkable degree, the drama, pathos and humor that are present daily in the editorial rooms of a metropolitan neAvspaper office. ROYAL. There is a touch of romance and a. thrill in “Grip of the Yukon,” the Universal Picture shoAving at the Royal 011 Saturday, that will set the blood tingling through the veins of the most critical theatre-goer. It is one of the most vivid screen versions of the great snoAv wastes of Alaska that local fans have had the pleasure of witnessing in many a day. The story is an original photoplay written by Charles A. Logue and has one of the most unique plots ever Avorked into a story of this type. One alm'ost feels the intense cold of the great glaciers and ice l fields Avhich form the background for practically the entire action of the story. And into the cast, off this great picture Universal has placed some of the forem'ost ■men and women players of the screen. In fact it might be termed an all-star cast. June .Marlowe, in the leading feminine role, gives a sympathetic conception of the character of Sheila O’Neil as the daughter of Burr Mclntosh Avho appears in the be-Avhiskered role of an Alaskan prospector. Francis X. Bushman, once Broadway’s idol, portrays a real he -to an role as the buddy of Neil Hamilton and Avith ■the support of Theadore Loreh, Otis Harlan, and James Farley makes one .of the best screen appearances of his career. It is Avorth anyone’s time to see it.