THE MOVIES

Te Aroha News, Volume XLI, Issue 6438, 15 January 1924, Page 5

THE MOVIES

TUESDAY—“HIS LAST RACE”

The horses thundering down the straight and her little boy right under the trampling hoofs —you can almost hear the mother’s scream in “His Last Race,” featuring Snowy Baker, to be screened at the Theatre Royal this evening. Mankiller, a wild horse, a fugitive from the cruelties of lash and spur, roamed the vast mountainous wilderness of the Rockies. A thousand miles away, unaware of the part this outlaw was to play in their lives, a man and a woman were parting. Mary explained as best she could that Richard Carleton has lost her by his strength and Harold Stewart has won her by his weakness. He wished her happiness and went away to the wild west. While in the west he heard of Mankiller’s speed and power. His sporting blood accepted the challenge and soon Mankiller found a new pursuer upon the trail. Trailing by night and day Mankiller was cornered in a canyon from which he dived into an icy cold lake and attempted to swim across. From the cliff 100 feet above Carleton dived into the water and after a big struggle captured Mankiller.

WEDNESDAY—“DRIFTING”

In a recent issue of Photoplay Magazine Anna May Wong, the young Chinese actress, was credited with the best individual screen performance of the month. Her emotional ability is given remarkable scope for expression in “Drifting,”- a screen play of China, offered as a Universal Jewel attraction at the Theatre Royal on Wednesday evening next.- Priscilla Dean is the star, supported by Miss Wong, Wallace Beery, Matt Moore and other players of popularity. John Colton wrote the play from which the picture was adapted, and it was immensely successful on the New York stage.

THURSDAY—“MIGHTY LAK’ A

ROSE”

In the slums of New York there are certain dark and mysterious regions, notorious for the part they have played in the criminal records of the city. These regions have been studied and carefully reproduced by Mr Carewe, with their stores, their trucks, their pawn shops and hurdygurdies and children, for the production of “Mighty Lak’ a Rose,” the First National picture to‘be screened at the Theatre Royal on Thursday evening next. Mr ’Carewe erected in the studio a reproduction of the famous Cherry Hill district, near Brooklyn Bridge, the notorious “Bandit’s Roost” and “Murderers’ Alley.”