THE MAORILAND THEATRE.

Shannon News, 15 May 1923, Page 3

THE MAORILAND THEATRE.

ZANE GREY’S MASTERPIECE. “The U.P. .Trail,” released through Selznick Pictures, and due on Friday, tells a sAveet, noble love story filled with the glamour of high adventure and .the rush of breathless action. “The U.P. Trail” has about it the great human qualities of love and supreme sacrifice. The characters are all played with such virility that there is no such thing a.s a neutral feeling toward them ; each is loved or hated strongly as the case may be. Though laid in one of the most colourful epochs of American history, the story could have been enacted in any land at any time. There are many laughs as Avell as tears in the play, happiness as well as sadness, and the greatest, happiness in the end. On a- noble theme it builds in colour, dramatic incident, and red-blooded 'action a powerful and appealing photoplay that, will live forever in one’s memory. “MADAME X.” . “Madame X.” the film which has created so much talk in America, and which features beautiful Pauline Frederick, will be screened in Shannon on Wednesday. Mis.- Frederick is supported bv\a strong cast, and the story told in the film is quite exceptional. Jaqueline Floriat is forbidden by her husband to re-enter their home, although their small son is dangerously ill. She gains admission but is seen by her husband, who orders her to leave Avithout seeing the hoy. Her life becomes wretched, and she sinks lower and loAver into a condition of degradation. Twenty years later she is discovered bv a" Frenchman travelling in South America, and he brings her hack to Paris. She is used to extort blackmail from her husband, but becomes terrified that, the truth will become known to her son. She kills the French blackmailer and is taken to prison, where she is known a,s “Madame X.” Unaware of the old woman's identity, the son becomes her attorney, and the sight, of her inspires him Avith pity, which, as the trial proceeds, becomes love. She Aviris her freedom, but still refrains from disclosing herself. Floriot, hOAvever, tells the truth to his son. and mother and child meet a short time befoT'e death ends her sufferings. It is a well-staged production, in which the atmosphere of France is particularly Avell sustained.