MAORILAND PICTURES.

Shannon News, 23 May 1922, Page 3

MAORILAND PICTURES.

“THE NOTORIOUS MISS LISLg.”

Heralded as the most beautiful woman in America, Katherine MacDonald makes her N.Z. debut in Mrs Baillie Reynolds’s famous story of sensational scandal "lend divorce, ‘‘The Notorious Miss Lisle,” to be screened locally on Wednesday evening. A happier'vehicle for the beauty and talent ’of the star could not have been found. In the role of the persecuted heroine, Gaenor Lislie, who flees to Brittany to avoid the pointing finger, of scorn after the publicity of a divorce case, with which she really had no connection, she rises to great heights of dramatic fervour, and her unquestioned beauty excites for her the greatest sympathy. “THE WORE!) AFLAME.”

In “The World Aflame,” a special Frank Keenan production which will be seen at the local theatre on Friday, is onefed wifSf ds said to bo a safe and sane solution to the most burning problems of the moment. It is" claimed for “The World Aflame’ that this tremendously gripping and vital photo-play will tell you the whole reason for the Bolshevist propaganda and other importations designed especially to. disturb Labour’s peace of mind. It is no preachment either on behalf of Capital or Labour. lTfells the sfory'of how an aggressive and forceful mayor checkmated an incipient revolution hi his city and pointed out to both employers and employees alike how, by “getting together” in brotherly Tashion, all of their differences might be- amicably adjusted.,