MAORILAND PICTURES.

Shannon News, 17 June 1924, Page 3

MAORILAND PICTURES.

“POOR MEN’S WIVES.” , You have seen “Rich Men’s Wives” , t)he play that swept the feature country. “Poor Men’s YV&ves” is its companion picture, and "has been pronounced an even better production. Directed by Gasnier, creator of “Rich Men’s Wives,” it di&s a great caste, Bar&bra. La iMarr, David Butler, Betty, Francisco,. Richard Tucker» Zasu i Pitts and the Heavenly Twins. Don’t miss this great screen drama at the local theatre on Wednesday FRIDAY’S BIG PICTURE. • The story of “Thundering Down”— Jack Standish, a young New Yoiker, ; voluntarily takes the blame for his father’s financial difficulties and disj appears, turning up in a sea coast j town in Java. There he falls into ! the clutches of an (unscrupulous planner, and also under the lure of Lullaby Lou, a beautiful but immoral wo- : man of the' white colony. JaJck’s father regains his financial presttige and sends for the young maxi. Paul ihas succumbed to the tropics, how- , ever. Mary Rogers, his fiancee, goes Ito Java, from New York, and finds I him a Human wreck. HeT struggle to wrest him from his surroundings and ' from Lullaby Lou is almost in vain, 'and she herself almost becomes a' victim: of the villainous planter.' Nature solves her problem, however, '.with a terrific typhoon .and .tidal wave which all but*wipes out the | little town. Jack and Mary emerge I hall-dead but facing a regenerated life together.