ROYAL PICTURES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2089, 12 February 1920, Page 3

ROYAL PICTURES.

The programme screened last night 'will be repealed to-night. ‘For to-morrow night, “Good Night, Paul,” the sauciest, snappiest, and sweetest comedy yet released, will he screened, and features that lovely actress, Constance Talma dge. The story, briefly, is; Richard Landers- (Norman Kerry and Paul (Harrison Ford), business partners, search vainly for lifly. thousand dollars lo keep them from going to the wall. Paul's uncle arrives in town unexpectedly and calls at the Lander’s home. Paul occupies lodgings with Richard ami his wife, Matilda (Constance Talmadge). Uncle Batiste (John Stoppling) .has long desired Paul lo marry to perpetuate his name. Matilda, realising that if Uncle is pleased (hey will easily be able to gel the fifty thousand, announces herself as Paul’s wife. .There follows a series of amusing complications resulting from the deception, A night is safely passed without a mishap, but in the morning Uncle discovers Paul draped on the parlour coin'll, and straightway is suspicious. He soon discovers Richard sliding down the water pipe from Matilda’s room, and his agitation is great. The deception is dually told him. Bat (he partners gel their fifty .thousand anyway, because Paul marries his Uncle’s nurse (Beatrice Van), while Uncle, not to lie outdone by youth, takes unto himself a modiste (Rosifa Mars!ini), who has whisked in and out of the plot a couple of times.