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TOWN HALL. Billie Dove, the screen’s greatest beauty, becomes modern beauty again for her latest picture, “The Man and the Moment,” a First National picture coming to the Town Hall on Wednesday. After a number of pictures which Look her lo Europe, technically speaking,• its which she played foreign roles, Miss Dove is again a modern girl in “The Man and the Moment," which is from the pen of rite famous Elinor Glvn. This is the story of an orphan girl who marries a man to escape the limitations pur upon her activities by her guardian. The hectic experiences ilmt follow make up a story of intense interest and with many dramatic experiences. Rod Lit Roeque, one of llie most popular leading men in pictures, is seen opposite Miss Dove in this story, and Owen Leo, the talented blonde actress, plays the “other woman."
George Fitzmanriee direcTcd “The Man and the Moment," which has been termed one of Miss Dove's greatest pictures. Its coming is aw.'iited with interest here, when: Billie I.Jove has a host ~! admirers. Other films on the same programme are "Roaming Romeos," a Gornedy, I’a l lie pictorial and British \'o\vs. I'sun I prices. If Millmi Sills has any regard lor his well-known features he lln-ew it to the winds during llie filming of “The Crash," which is showing at the Town Mall on Saturday, with Sills in the starring role. In one of the most thrilling scenes in the picture, Sills fights with William Demurest and two of the "heavy’s" gang. The fight is probably the most thrilling and realistic since the uever-to-be-forg-ot-ten fight between Sills and Noah Beery in “The Spoilers." The. Vie,tor McLaglan special attraction "The Black Watch,’’ has been booked for screening next week.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4463, 10 June 1930, Page 3
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292ENTERTAINMENT Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4463, 10 June 1930, Page 3
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