ENTERTAINMENT.

Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4433, 29 March 1930, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENT.

TOWN HA LI

A double feature programme will lie screened at usual prices at the Town Mail 10-uight. “Alter the VenliH" and “Taking' a. Chance,’' are the two .star attractions. A story of life on the strange shores of India; of a love affair in a tropical bungalow, and the later disastrous effects. Robert J lichens, known the world over as one of the literary world’s greatest dramatic writers, has excelled himself with the dynamic slorv of “After the Verdict," which has already been lead hv thousands. It has now been translated to the screen by Henrik Caleen, resulting in a .film that is remarkable for its dramatic power. "Taking a Chance,” the other pic.iure. is a Western drama dealing with the doings of a mysterious masked bandit. Ilex Bell is the lectured player. With comedy to he screened at usual prices. Something entirely different from the ordinary run of “thrill” pielures is lo he seen in “The Sky Skiddei;,’ a Universal product ion starring Al Wilson which will he screened at the Town flail on Monday. M deals with the adventures or rather misadventures of a voting aviator who had invented a “fuel” which lie claimed would propel a plane 1000 miles on a pint, and when he puts his claim to a lest before an assembly of doubting Thomases and fails, he is satisfied that a human agency had been at the back of the failure and he sets out in establish this belief. Eventually he participates in a ’plane race which he wins and incidentally learns the cause of his erstwhile failure and with the prize money from the race, is able to carry on and prove the truth of his claim as to the fuel. Usual prices.