MAORILAND PICTURES.

Shannon News, 8 July 1924, Page 3

MAORILAND PICTURES.

TVV Q STARS AT ONE Pill CL. On Wednesday a bumper programme will be presented at me | Maoriland Theatre* i Tne first is “The Old Nest,” with ' the greatest star cast ever assembled, including Mary Aiden, Louise Lovely, Cullen tLandis, Helene Chadwick aim ‘six of the bonniest kiddies you have ever seen.

j Then there) is a 2QQQ-foot Chaplin ' comedy “Pay Day.’’ It’s years since we’ve seen Charlie drunk —and when he goes wandering home at dawn, wearing two overcoats, holding someone’s umbrella aloft, and dangling a'lobster, before a stray puss—why you’ll count yourself lucky if you get over it without a fit of hysterics. FRIDAY’S FEATURE.

! “A Lady of Quality,” billed lor Friday: is a historical romance. A girl, raised as a boy because her father had no son, headstrong, impulsive, absolutely" unconventional, riding \to hounds in breeches, is suddenly conj fronted by the fact that her .mode of life is going to interfere seriously j with her matrimonial chances. Over- ■ night she determines to become a lady of quality in the society to which she was born, in her new character, Clorinda Wildairs fails impulsively lh love with Sir John Oxen, a brilliant : Beau Brununel, lady-killer of the (most unscrupulous type. In an in- ' advised moment she permits him to clip a lock of her hair. With this testimonial of her affection in liis/ possession, he gives her the cold shoulder and she marries the Earl of | Dunstonwolde, who dies at the end of a year of a brilliant London season 1 for the Countess. Later,, she falls desperately in love with the Earl’s kinsman, the' Duke of Osmonde. On the eve of her marriage to him comes the philandering Sir John Oxen, in--1 spired by pique, poverty and as near desperate love as his nature permits, and holds over her head the tell, tale lock, of hair. In a tempest of'passion on'both sides, an act is. committed which unjoints the whole course of the Countess’ plan of life.