ROYAL PICTURES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 2066, 11 December 1919, Page 2

ROYAL PICTURES.

At the Royal to-night thy programme screened last night will be repeated. To-morrow night the World drama, “Joan of the Woods,” starring the popular - screen actress, June Elvidge, supported by Madge Evans and John Bowers, will *he shown. Thrilling scones are provided. In primitive fashion the little girl of the woods is practically sold to a man she despises by her father, and is saved from her fate by a city man, who'iakes her. away and marries her. However, he grows a,shamed of his wife’s wild untamed ways, and neglects her. The story is novel, exciting, and pathetic, and June Elvidge, rises to great heights of histrionic art in her double portrayal. The supporting caste is an excellent one, and the presentation lacks nothing that will please. “Mickey,” Mack Sennett’s big thirty-thousand dollar picture, which is set down for screening at The Royal on Monday next, under (lie auspices of Leo de Chateau s International Attractions, is said to be crammed with sensational incidents, dramatic power and cxhiliraling comedy. Suituation is piled on situation until one is almost bewildered. Attention is arrested at the outset, and so adroitly is the production bandied that there is not one dull moment in the Avhole eightreels. There are mad races between trains and motors, big' .ballroom scenes, a rattling race for the Northern Cup, in which Mabel Normand as “Mickey” has a mount and comes to grief, swimming stunts, chases, and everything else that is known to tilmdom. The Sydney Morning Herald, in a recent review, said; “'So admirable, so humorous, so breathlessly exciting a photoplay.” The niagniiicent realism ol the. horse race, and Mickey’s peril as she comes to grief, (he exciting race for life between a motor car and a railroad express, the terrible dilerna of Mickey before the light in the Hunt Club rooms, arc worthy of praise from the most jaded picture patron. Special music accompanies the Him.