MAORILAND PICTURES.

Shannon News, 12 January 1923, Page 3

MAORILAND PICTURES.

There will he screened at the above theatre on Saturday evening- "The Alan Who Married His Own Wile." John Morton, head ol the BJue Star Line, thinks that his wife, whom he met in a shipwreck two years before and married after a strange . courtship, doesn't; love him any more. The wreck had leit him with a hideous face, and though he Shad amassed a fortune, lie saw his beautiful wife more and more in the company of a mental lightweight, Freddie Needham. He came to a decision. He put his affairs in the (hands of a lawyer and swapped identity With the body of a dead man, washed ashore. Morton then goes hack to his childhood home in Boston and resumes his real name, O'Hara Marsdeii. He determines to take advantage of the social education he missed v.iiau he ran away at sixteen to the sea. The new art of the war, plastic surgery, is called in and his scarred face restored to smoothness. An entirely new man, he goes back to San Francisco to win his wife anew. He finds her badly in love with the dead John Morton! Not telling anyone who he is, he visits the Blue Star offices and finds the firm near the rocks mismanaged by Needham. Dramatically unfolding a picture of a re-made soul, Hie story wins

u -i vivid climax. "A FULL HOUSE."

Oji Monday evening the above will ne screened. This is a picture that is full of surprises. it is a tale of a "queen" and a "knave" who spoiled a royal heart flush, in a little fourhanded game of Jove that Avasn't exactly according lo Hoyle.