ENTERTAINMENT.

Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4504, 13 September 1930, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENT.

TOWN HALL. Universal special, adapted from the popular Robert Hughes story, “The Girl on the Barge,” is coming to the Town Hall tonight. Added interest to this news is contained in the information that vivacious Sally O’Neil and Malcolm MacGregor have featured roles in the picture. “The Girl on the Barge” is a story of young love along the Erio Canal, and the picture actually was photographed along the picturesque waterways iu upper New York State. Edward Sloma.ii, the director, brought the principals and a large technical staff all the way from California to get the correct backgrounds for the entertaining Hughes story. The ’plot concerns' ti hard-drinking hut religiously devout Scotch barge captain with lour motherless children. Erie, the oldest daughter, falls in love with Hie pilot of the tug-boat which draws the barge upon which sin* lives. This enrages her father, who causes the pilot’s disinis-.-.al. Alter a severe (heating, Erie deserts the barge and ilees to the pilot’s rooms ashore, but is. dragged hack to her unhappy home after seeing her sweetheart cruelly battered by her faither’s powerful fists. How the pilot’s bravery, during a terrilic storm iu which ihe barge is threatened by destruction, saves the lives of the barge ..I plain’s family and wins his admiration, makes an excellent and exciting iitting climax to the picture. Also “Newlyweds Lose JSnooikiuns” (comedy), News aud Cartoon. Ken Maynard, the popular Western star, will be seen next Wednesday in “The Lawless Legion.”