THE LYCEUM

Manawatu Times, Volume LII, Issue 3626, 16 June 1927, Page 3

THE LYCEUM

BERT LYTELL IN “STEEL OF THE ROYAL MOUNTED.” "Steele of the Royal Mounted,’’ the Master Picture showing at the Lyceum theatre to-night, from the popular scries of stories dealing with that character written by James Oliver Curwobd. As a writer of the great outdoors Mr. Curwood stands alone,' and especially is hi s place secure with his stories of the romantie Northwest Mounted Police. COMING TO-MORROW. “PERCH OF THE DEVIL." One of the commonest and most tragic situations in modern life, that of the married couple who suddenly acquire great riches and find that their wealth is estranging them is the story told in "Perch of the Devil”, King Baggol’s latest Universal ’production which comes to the Lyceum theatre to-morrow. Gertrude Atherton, author of the novel from which the picture story was taken based her plot in Butte, Montana, and made her heroine an ambitious, tremendously attractive young girl of no position who marries a young mining engineer. When he suddenly realised great wealth from his mining properties, both realise that she is not fitted for a social position, and she makes a desperate struggle to keep her husband by working furiously to elevate herself.to his position.