ENTERTAINMENT.

Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4414, 13 February 1930, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENT.

t ♦ TOWN 1f A 1.1.. The Town Hull on Saturday will present a. double-feature programme at tlie usual prices of admission. The lirst feature is “The Head of the family,” a six-reel comedy drama and the oilier headliner “Tlie -d Kings,” a circus melodrama. Doctors the world over are generally unanimous in the opinion tlial (here is nothin# so good lor a physical or spiritual disability, actual or imagined, as a good hearty laugh. Well then, here’s an opportunity for all dyspeptic persons with a grouch, pessimists, and all others who feel that the. world is not being run the way they like it, to absorb a line anecdote, for at the Town Hall on Saturday, “The Head of the family," It Ini farce based mi the Saturday fveiling Post story by Ucorge Randolph Chester, arrives and it purports to carry more Ilian 2<)o laughs to the onlooker, umpiestionably this heals laughing gas a. mile, and to jack up the interest, in I lie proceedings tin(i lin boasts of a cast which includes 1 lie very personable, Virginia Lee Corbin, the very he-mnnish, William Russell, the always cute and saucy Mickey Bennett, and others of a 'kindred ilk.

Willen Hans Steinholl, the brilliant director of the circus drama, “The Three Kings,” which is nlso showing - on Saturday, was filming the circus scenes at Blackpool, fug-land's “Coney Island,” he decided to include sonic of the main highlights of that famous circus cnterlninmcnl, to obtain realistic atmosphere in his production. Accordingly Clifford McLaglen, brother of the star of “The Black Watch” and “The Cock-eyed World,” was ordered into the lions’ cage. In the true McLaglen manner, lie stepped into the huge den before an audience of 3,000, and there actually made the lions go through several of their famous tricks. Of course McLaglen has had previous circus experience which together with his dominant personality, made the scene a huge success, and one of the many exciting features of the production. Usual piices.