ENTERTAINMENTS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3897, 19 January 1929, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

♦ TOWN HALL. An absorbing story, tropical backgrounds! of the jungle, a splendid east, fine direction and one of the most beautiful stars before the camera all go to make “The Gateway of the Moon” one of the best pictures of the season. This latest Fox Films feature which is at the Town Hall theatre to-night has Dolores Del Rio in the star role of Toni, a child of nature of the Amazon country. Walter Pidgeon plays opposite her in the part of the young engineer whom she loves and hates with equal intensity by turns, while Leslie Fenton, Ted McNamara and Anders R'andolf are east in the (Abep roles of importance. With a comedy, News and Scenic at usual prices. 'Shirley Mason and Richard Arlen are the stars of Monday’s feature “Sally in our Alley,” a story of the New York tenements. Usual prices.

A line comedy of the air featuring George Sidney and Charles Murray, “Flying Romeos,” has been booked for Anniversary night (Tuesday). Prices as usual. [Bcbe Daniel’s latest success “Hot News,” is Wednesday’s attraction. This is an exciting and amusing tale written around the adventurous quest of news cameramen for news snaps. Usual prices. ROYAL.

There is a touch of romance and a thrill in “Grip of the Yukon,” the Universal Picture showing at the Royal to-night, that will set the blood tingling 1 through the veins of the most critical theatre-goer. It is one of the most vivid screen versions of the great snow wastes of Alaska that local fans have had ihe pleasure of witnessing in many a day. The story is an original photoplay written by Charles A. Logue and hfis one of the most unique plots ever worked into a story of this type. One almost feels the intense cold of the great glaciers and ice fields which form the background for practically the entire action of the story. And into the east of this, great picture Universal has placed some of the foremost men and women players of the screen. In fact it might be termed an all-star east. June Marlowe, in the leading feminine role gives a sympathetic conception of "the character of Sheila O’Neil as the daughter of Burr Mclntosh who appears in the be-whis'kiered role of an Alaskan prospector. Francis X. Bushman, once Broadway's idol, portrays a real he-man role as the buddy of Neil Hamilton and with the support of Theadore Loreh, Otis Harlan, and James Farley makes one of the best screen appearances of his career. It is worth anyone’s time to see it. With comedy, News and Cartoon. Prices 9d and 1/6. Children 3d and Cd.