MAORI LAND THEATRE.

Shannon News, 7 October 1924, Page 3

MAORI LAND THEATRE.

NEW, . SWANSON FILM PACKED THRILLS, Beautiful views of Europe’s most fashionable water resort; an absorbing murder tidal colourful of action ! at a fine, country estate; and Gloria Swanson in ah interesting array cn {brand new Paris gowns, are announced as bigb lights .of ‘The Impossible Mrs Bellew,” a hew; Pa.ru- [ mount picture, which conies to the Muoriland Theatre to-morrow night. I "The Impossible .'Mrs Belfew” ‘was ! adapted hy Percy Heath from a novel (hy David Lisle. It tells of what hap--1 pens when an innocent wile’s repu- ) tation is purposely blackened by an unscrupulous lawyer in order to save her worthless husband from conviction Qf a charge hi murder. Becoming a social pariah as “The Impossible Mrs Befiew,” Miss Swanson flees from America to Europe, where the story runs through a gamut of interesting sequences to a romance that promises to give her the happiness ol which she has heen deprived. It is pointed out that “The Impossible Mrs Bellew.” wifi have an especial upp e ai to' women, as Miss Swanson wears Several choice gowns 'brought direct from Paris by the star.

; ‘‘MANSLAUGHTER.” , There‘were no photographers to record the firess ’and. customs of the day when the barbarians overthrew ancient Rome. Nevertheless,, Cecil B. De Mille has produced an historically faithful reproduction of this for his latest Paramount pictiure “Manslaughter,’’ coming to the local theatre next Friday. The episode in question is a historical cutback, wiiigm viVidfty depicjts the ides cent of the. barbarian hordes upon. Rome, rice Joy, who is one of the (principals of the modern portion of the story, is the hostess at a lavishly beautiful. Roman bacchanal, which is, interrupted by Thomas Meighan in the role the leader of. the Goths. A strikingly realistic gladiatorial combat is one of the many interesting feature s of the bacchanalian entertainment. Although this episode required more than a week to film and kept nearly a thousand people employed, it will occupy the screen lor only a lew minute. It Is used to point a powerful lesson and serves to draw an interesting comparison between ancient Rome and modern America.