MAORILAND PICTURES.

Shannon News, 18 January 1924, Page 3

MAORILAND PICTURES.

"TRAPPED IN THE AIR."

A specially good Saturday night programme is scheduled for the Maoriland. The big picture is an aerial iadvjenture full 'to the edge of romance and thrills. It is entitled "Trapped in ■the Air," with Lieister Cuneo in the ■star role. As. a .set-off there is a laughable Sunshine comedy, "Roaring Lions on a Steamship." "FOOLS AND RICHES." ,

On 'Monday night -a powerful drama entitled "Fools and Riches" will be screened. The story is as follows: Jimmy Dorga-n AVa.s what is knoAvn as s "a spendin' fool." To him money AVas * something to be used the quickest Avay J possible, so when his father, Old "Pickhandle" Dorgan, sees the boy flip a twenty dollar gold piece and then Neglect to*-pick it up after losing his automobile and £SOOO as' a result of . the flip lie determined to check the

spending fever. Death, however; interveaies and Jimmy awakes one morning to learn that his filthier has left hinij £500,000, which is about a tenth of what his fortune is supposed to have been,. With the legacy there is a .letter to Jimmy, in A\'hioh he states that he; knows the boy Avill spend the fortune in the shortest possible time, ,and that Avhen he is "fla/t broke" and ■his friends have deserted him he is to go to an ''old country place and dig up a box that (the father'has buried and which contains the twenty dollars that the son has so dlsdainfulily passed up. All this, in the course of time comes to pass, .but Avith the finding of the tlwenty 'dollars theate comies to Jimmy a fortune that he had never dreamed of and into his life the realisation that fools and riches are a combination that can't last.