ENTERTAINMENTS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1716, 6 January 1920, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

“DADDY. LONG LEGS.’I ,

PALACE TO-NIGHT. (

Judy Abbott (starring Mary Pickford) is regarded as the worst of all the orphans in the asylum by the severe Mrs Lippett, who runs the place. On the contrary, however, Judy is about the best. She is a very human little thing and fights for the rights of the kiddies around her, kiddies who have never liaxl a chance. Her pet aversion is a certain Wednesday, when all the inhuman trustees make the place a visit and feel gratified about doing so much , for the orphans. They are all inhuman but one —Miss Pritchard—and this kind lady, when Judy keeps on growing up, interests the wealthy Jarvis Pendleton in her, with, the result that she is sent to college. Pendleton prefers to bo known to her as plain John Smith, and refuses to meet her. Later, however, Judy is introduced to him as Mr Pendleton, and then ho falls in love. Little does Judy know that the tall, serious man is none other than Daddy Long Legs, her nickname for her benefactor. Judy has another suitor, Jimmie Mcßridge, a college freshman with few brains. And when Judy refuses Pendleton’s offer of marriage, he behoves that it is because Jimmie comes first in her heart , In reality, it is because Judy feels unequal to him socially. So she sits herself down and writes a letter to her Daddy Long Legs, telling him the whole sad story, and then when she hears no answer she takes matters into her own hands and goes to the house of the mysterious John Smith* and there of course she discovers that Pendleton, John Smith and Daddy Long I*ogs arc one and the same, and naturally there is a happy imr The season opens to-night at the Palace, and the box plan may be seen at the Kosy Office.

ROSY

MABEL NORMAN I) IN “THE PEST.” - P “The Pest,” the latest Goldwyn feature starring the ever-humorous Mabel Normand is fuTof the most dplightf.il comedy besprinkled with touches of pathos. Ihe Pest” is no doubt deserving of her name, from the antics she gets up to, and Mabel shows a return to her old Keystone form, both in costume and acting. Dressed mostlv in blue dungarees she is u wholesouled mirth provider through five reels ol ridiculous situations, and whether in the bathing scene, her bath being a water bar* rel or in the ballroom, where she enters in the latest gown (with her dungarees on undcrnVth), or on the ferry over the little , ; ivor which she ran as a side lino, she is a wire-springed individual, full of originality. The’ Metro circus drama, “One 'I lung at a Time O’Day,” is being shown as an extra at the day session.

EVERYBOYS’S,

“UP ROMANCE ROAD.”

William Russell is ono of a few strong: men vvlio make an attractive hero on the screen, ami assisted by snch a charming: Railing lady as Charlotte Burton, he provides a feast of entertainment in the mutual feature “Up Romance Rond.’’ As a youngster hankering after\tho romantic and despising the commonplace, he finds enough thrills and adventure to satisfy any man of ordinary physique. Russell's snper-humaji strength and agility serve him in good stead in the situations which arise, and tin ill after thrill is provided in the story, mostly in rescuing the lovely lady under conditions that arc at least awkward. A band of spies assists in providing excitement, meeting their just desserts in the approved fashion.