MAORILAND THEATRE.

Shannon News, 10 January 1922, Page 3

MAORILAND THEATRE.

VIOLA DANA IN “OFFSHORE PIRATE.” For Wednesday at the local picture house, Viola Dana is to star,in “The Offshore Birate.” This is a Metro special production. In this unusual picture, which was adapted from the stoly of F. Scott Fitzgerald, as published in the Saturday Evening Post. Miss Dana has a part that brings out all her unusual gilts. As Ardifa Farnam, the girl who is stolen by a modern piratical young man, she excels her previous efforts. The story tells otArclita" Farnatn, young, rich and beautiful, whose heart has gone to a scheming foreigner who cleverly plots for her money. Her relations realise what a rogue he isj, but Ardita is adam(ant, and intends to marry him. In despair, they contrive a plan. Toby Moreland, a happy-go-lucky young fellow, boards Ardita’s yacht with a handful of cutthroats and seizes the vessel. Out cf this romance springs—hut unexpectedly, and after thrilling happenings. Critics who have already seen the picture, hail .it as a powerful romance, standing far out of the ordinary run of pictures. It radiates life from the very outset until the last satisfying touches, and moves as rapidly as the trim little yacht on which most of the action transpires. The theme has novelty and freshness, distinct tributes both to its original author and to Metro. “EAST LYNNE." The hilling of Mrs Henry Wood's famous sentimental story, “East Lynne,” for Friday will attract a good deal of notice. The story is one that never grows old—succeeding generations delight in the characters and their vicissitudes,' and picture-goers will welcome the opportunity to-mor-row night of seeing on the screen the characters they have already pictured in their thoughts. Blanche Forsythe appears as Lady Isabel.