MAORILAND THEATRE.

Shannon News, 24 March 1922, Page 3

MAORILAND THEATRE.

“WINGS OF LOVE” ON SATURDAY

Eileen Percy in “Wings of Love,” is the selection for to-morrow night at the local picture-house. Miss Percy looks charming in Western clothes in the opening of the story. She is on her uncle’s ranch awaiting her twentieth birthday anniversary, which is to mark her entrance in tty New York society under the guidance of an Eastern -aunt. Betty by her father’s will becomes very wealthy. She is delighted with the pilospcd until Bert Craignair, an airmail, drops down on the ranch and—well, they fall in love. Then Betty doesn't want to go to New York unless Bert goes. But if she should run off with Bert the uncle will not get his reward, for according to the will he must deliver her to her aunt in New York. The aviator almost gets Betty, but the uncle and his cowboys outwit him. In New York Betty runs into a band of crooks wlm have, :Ic-/ signs on a 100,000 dollar pearl necklace Betty gets from her aunt. Bert, disguised as a chauffeur, is there to help her, and together —and after a struggle—they capture the gang and send them to gaol,.

“CLOSED DOORS“—MONDAY. A production that is sure to appeal and win numerous admirers for Alice Calhoun is “Closed Doors.” Every detail has been carefully handled in order to present the rising star in a production that would give her added prestige and display hei unusual dramatic ability. Apparently capable of handling characters of all sorts and types, she is equally at -home as the light flippant schoolgirl and the mature woman of. the world. In “Closed Doors” she portrays a girl ml three periods ot her life, the ages of fourteen, eighteen and twenty-two. At first she is ti e care-free child, later the debutante whose mind is centred upon marriage, and lastly the lonely wife whose search' of happiness is the cause of several unique and dramatic situations.;