MAORILAND PICTURES.

Shannon News, 25 November 1924, Page 3

MAORILAND PICTURES.

“FLAMING YOUTH.”

The hazards that beset the. carefree modern flapper with her over-confl-dent belief that she. can always take care of herself are dramatically ’ exposed in the First Rational picturization qf Warner Fabian’s “Flaming Youth,” due. on Wednesday. Patricia Fentriss, the capricious heroine, portrayed by Colleen Moore, is. the sort v that thinks herself equal to any emergency. She also has an idea that matrimony is injurious to romance and so tells the man who asks her to be his wife. Later she tells another whom she thinks she loves that she won’t marry him and Is pleased with his answer; “I should (hope not. That 1 would kill the poetry of our love.” I She accepts his invitation to go on a I yachting party, and finds a merry gathering of revellers aboard. Then, when she realises what her rash act entails, she. escapes through a porthole and drops into the sea. Realization of the folly of her false stand-' ards follows her rescue. “THE LAW FORBIDS.’’ Paul Renisen, a playwright, andTUs wife, Rhoda, become estranged and seek a divorce. The judge denies a divorce and decrees they shall separate for a year, and if the “trial separation” is a success, the case is to be re-opened. The little daughter, Peggy, is to remain six months with, each parent—-the mother first. Rhoda departs for her parents’ home. Peggy makes friends, with chickens, and farm pets and passes the days in playPaul, in the city, becoming discouraged, seeks the company of a prominent actress, for wmfin he is writing a play. little Peggy, longing for her father, sets out with her pet rooster for the city. Rhoda, learning of this, follows, arriving in time to meet the judge, .who takes, her to the opening performance of her husband’B play. At the climax little Peggy walks on with her pet rooster. Paid, playing tihe hero because of the leading man having gone on al spree, stands dumbfounded; then the actress playing the wife, with presence of mind, epters and “fakes” some lines. A reconciliation is enacted on the spur of the moment— #nd saves the slliow. How Peggy, in a remarkable climax completes the story off stage,; completes a series of gripping, dramatic scenes. At the Maorilaind on Friday.