ENTERTAINMENT.

Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 40402, 18 January 1930, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENT.

♦ TOWN HALL. Piracy, seal-hunting, the desolate Piribilof Islands in Bering Sea —plots ami counterplots—enough lighting to satisfy the most exacting spectator —these are some of the tea Hires of “The Far Call,” Allan Dwan’s salty drama for Fox Films ia the Town Hall to-night. Based on Fdison Marshall's popular novel of Du* same name, the picture begins in Shanghai, continues on Die Paeilic and on St. Paul Island, and (*mls in Heaven—at least, for the two principal characters, Charles Alorton and Leila Hyams. With such excellent players as Ulrich 1 Inapt, Stanley .J. Sandford, Charles Middleton, Arthur Stone and Ivan Liuow in support, both Alorton and the fair Miss Hyams give an unusually convincing and splen-. did potrformanee. Dwan’s direction again proves that he is a master of the megaphone, and altogether

"The .Far Call” can he classed as both interesting and entertaining. V. itli “Easy Payments” (Comedy), Scenic and Xews. Usual prices. “THE WOMAN DISPUTED.” Norma Talmadge plays the most daring role of her career in “The Woman Disputed,” -an adaptation of the sensational stage success of the same tide, which is coming to the Town Hull on Monday. Sam Tax lor, Harold Lloyd’s famous director, maker of “Girl Shy” and “Safety Last," xvas eo-direetor with Mr. King. Aliss Talmadge’s second vehicle for United Artists has its locale on the AnstrianRiiss'ian border before and during the World War. The earlier scenes lexical the star as a flashily-gar- » bed girl whose beauty makes her a conspicuous figure in the nightlife .»i' an Austrian city. She is loved by two men. former friends, xx'hom the war makes enemies as xvell as rivals. The supporting cast of (‘The Woman Disputed” is headed by Gilbert Boland, the leading man who won lim first big success with Aliss Talmadge in “Camille” and later .(gain scored heavily opposite her in “The Dove.” Boland plays a dashjug Austrian army officer. Prices ! '- and 2/-. Children half price.