ENTERTAINMENTS

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIV, Issue 1074, 22 July 1924, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS

KOSY.

Two excellent dramas and a slow motion picture of golf comprise the current programme at the Ko.«y Theatre. “The Governor’s Lady’’ is what may he termed a political story and shows the influence which women exert in this absorbing subject. “The Ninety and Nine” is a drama on different lines. The plot hinges around a man who runs away to escape a charge of murder, an unjust charge, for, a 3 transpires, ho is innocent. Before his innocence is established, however, he has many trials to bear and at one point is just about to be arrested.

PALACE.

“IF WINTER COMES.” “If Winter Comes,” the screen production of A. S. M. Hutchinson’s novel, tells the story of the “puzzle-head,” Mark Sabre, with such charm, conviction and fidelity as to rank it among the best of the screen efforts of the past two years. Once more a film play, based upon a novel, actually surpasses in interest and realism the original material upon which it. is built, i'lie role of Mark Sabre is played L>y Percy Marrnont and he is old “Marko” to the life. Every shade of expression, every gesture, reproduces the childlike idealist of Hutchinson’s story, the man who was almost irritatingly lamblike in his own behalf, but who could become a raging lion in defence of another. Marmont's work in (lie courtroom seen? presents a picture that will stamp itself ineradicably upon the mind and imagination of everyone who sees it. A better “Mabel” than that of Margaret Fielding could not have been found. Miss Fielding gives a perfect interpretation of this unimaginative, soulless woman who was a vindictive fireside autocrat into the bargain. The settings are worthy of a story in themselves. The glimpses of London and Brighton; the magnificent English manor house, with its inoat. its lily pond and rose garden; its decorative peacocks; the little villa in Tidborough; the wooded bridle paths; all of those arc tantaliziiigly beautiful. “If Winter Comes” opened last night at the Palace Theatre and will be screened again to-night. The season concludes on Thursday.