ENTERTAINMENTS

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIV, Issue 1075, 23 July 1924, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS

PALACE. A SPLENDID PHOTOPLAY. “IF WINTER COMES.” “If Winter Comes” was undoubtedly tlie best novel of the past few years. By the same token, ‘“‘lf Winter Comes,” the William Fox screen version of the famous Hutchinson book, is the outstanding photoplay of the last ten years. Crowded houses at the Palace Theatre, where Percy Alarmont is seen in his great characterisation of the whimsical Mark Sabre, prove emphatically that when a really fine work of fiction is given adequate film dramatisation the public will show its appreciation in no uncertain manner. “If Winter Comes” has been brought to the screen as the author himself would have filmed it were he a photoplay director. The story follows the book literally, the cast is ideul and the whimsical humour and deep pathos of the story are emphasised in the screen adaptation. Tomorrow is the last opportunity to see this exceptional photodrama, as it closes its run at the Palace Theatre. ROSY, That the slow motion picture of golf has proved popular with players of that game is plainly evidenced by the large attendance of golfers at the Kosy Theatre on the last two days and nights. The picture will receive its final screening this evening, together with “The Governor’s Lady” and “The Ninety and Nine,” two dramas which are rather above the average of what may be termed ordinary subjects, meaning of course, that they do not pretend to the same class as “If Winter Comes” and pictures of that type. Thero is nothing in common between the two subjects on the current programme, and if one is better than the other, “The Governor’s Lady” gets the preference.