ENTERTAINMENTS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3829, 9 August 1928, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

TO WIN HALL. , Although the cast of players of “Body and Soul” Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s newest dramatic attraction to be shown at the Town Hall on Friday consists of three principal players only, Lionel Barrymore, Norman Kerry and Aileen Pringle present the intense drama of his powerful story with unforgetable realism. The story is unfolded on the snow-covered Alps,.and revolves around the love of a derelict doctor for a pretty peasant girl whom lie marries. His love degenerates into insane jealousy, however, and then a second man enters the drama. Love and hate surge and seeth in the snow stillnesses until ultimate solution of the problem is provided by a blizzard, when one' of the men perishes. With “Radio Love” (comedy), News and Scenic. Usual prices. Riu-Tin-Tin the canine star will be the leading attraction in “Tracked by the Police” on Saturday. ROYAL. A 1 Wilson, the “human fly” of filmdom, has it all over any bird in the air. Nature has not as yet produced a fowl or any other form of life than can fly upside down. But leave it to A 1 to outdo nature, for with the aid of science he has accomplished this feat and many more for thrill producers in his latest Universal Western air film, “The Air Patrol,” at the. Royal on Saturday. This great epic of the clouds averages a thrill a second. There are tail-spins, loops, a climb from one plane to another, tight spirals, and a fight for life on the wing of a plane travelling seventy miles an hour —out of control. Think of it! After fighting two huskies thousands of feet in the air, A 1 brings his plane back into position after falling many hundreds of feet and then lands safely, all for a girl. Also “Snookums Clean Up” (Comedy), British News, etc. Prices 1/- and 1/6. Children half price. P. C. Wren’s story of the Foreign Legion “Beau Gcste,” has been booked for early screening the the Royal.