ENTERTAINMENT.

Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 4009, 12 October 1929, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENT.

TOWN HALL._ “Fugitives,” the attraction at the Town Hall to-night, is a thrilling drama of hate that eventually dissolves into love, This now Fox picture concerns a beautiful night club singer who becomes emnashed in,a web of circumstance and is convicted on a charge of murder. She escapes to exile in a distant country and, after the real murderer lias confessed, the young and over zealous district attorney who prosecuted her seeks her out in an effort to right the wrong he has done. It would not he fail- to reveal the plot, but it may be pointed out that it embraces a succession of thrills. Madge Bellamy, the star of “Fugitives,” recalls. her many former triumphs. -With “Cold Turkey” (comedy), Palestine, and News. Usual ptrices.

.Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell are again co-featured under the direction of Frank Borzgge in -Street Angel,” Fox Films production coming to the Town Hall next Monday. It is said by critics throughout blip country that this romance of Naples is a fitting successor to “7th Heaven,” their triumph of last year. In fact many go so far as to claim it as even greater 'than the powerful screen drama based on Austin Strong’s play. In this production Miss Gaynor plays the part of “Angelina,” a self-sa-crificing, though cynical • little Italian girl whose romance with Uuino, an idealistic Italian painter, played by (Charles Farrell forms the plot of the story. The picture is based on “Lady Cristilinda,” the play by Alone k'ton Btoffe. Prices 1/- and 1/6. Children half price'.