ENTERTAINMENTS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3930, 13 April 1929, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

TOWN HALL. Power and characterisation are the distinctive features of the British Masterpiece, “Roses of Picardy,” to be screened at the Town Hall to-night. It is a presentation of boldlydrawn character studies, amazingly real and human, each expressing vital problems individual and intimate, yet common to all elases of men and women involved in the war. There is Madeleine, a Flemish tenant farmer’s daughter, urged by the ; spirit of generations symbolised in “The Spanish Farm,” which has withstood the bloody wars of more •than two centuries in the cockpit of Europe. To Skene, the young British officer, war means at first an ad venture, then serious business. The working out of their destinies is as much - the concern of the audience as of the characters themselves, whilst, therefore, the war forms atmosphere and background, it prorides a cause for intimate drama, sincerely and humanly portrayed. The climax is the culmination of a well-conceived dramatic plot. Also “The Tennis Gifl,” a sporting picture showing “Betty” NathaH and all the Eng : lish star players in action, and the latest Overseas News. Usual prices. , : ■ i

“The Heart of Maryland,” a Warner-Malster Picture, starring Dolores Costello, and directed by Lloyd Bacon, comes to the Town Hall next Monday. Many of the celebrated characters of the Civil War appear, and the story has as its storm centre Maryland Calvert, a girl of the Southern aristocracy, who finds herself torn between passionate love for her native State, and for a young man who decided to espouse the cause of the North.