MAORILAND PICTURES.
• “HOLD YOUR HORSES.” (Adapted from Rupert Hughes’ Story “Canavan.’’) Dan canavan begins as a street cleaner and ends a member of society, and the husband of one; of society’smost blase and snobbish devotees, Beatrice Newness. While >a white wing , the Irishman is the most abject figure imaginable. One day he is polishing the Avenue and is not quick enough to dart from under the prancing hoof , of the horses, drawing the Newness 1 Victoria. He is trampled upon and j receives an indelible scar of a hor s eI shoe on his chest, which proved later to bring him the best of luck. Soon ; after he is brought to realise his latent power when he finds he can stop any movement of the world with .a red flag. And this he makes his theory in life from then on; by figuratively and actively waving a danger signal he I can get almost anything he wants. He is initiated into politics and his rise is rapid and substantial, until he is Mayor of the city. His winning personulitv does as much -as his fistic power in his rise to political suzerainty, and it wins for him as wife the woman whose horses stamped the lucky sign upon his chest. But the man’s manners have not improved to ai great extent and the new Mrs Cannvan is soon disgusted and treats him with cold disdain, he again figuratively waves the. red flag and she is made to realise the intrinsic worth of her husband, whose style will finally improve, you. are lead to believe. “Hold \ your Horses” will be screened at the Maoriland Theatre to-morrow evening. ~ '
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Shannon News, 17 July 1923, Page 2
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276MAORILAND PICTURES. Shannon News, 17 July 1923, Page 2
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