MAORILAND PICTURES.

Shannon News, 9 December 1924, Page 2

MAORILAND PICTURES.

“THE SCARLET LILY.”

A man and a girl were sitting on a lawn. 'me. man, a lawyer whose sight was impaired, was listening intently as nis iiancee. read tne. newspapers, to linn. Suddenly sue stopped abruptly, and tod sensed mat sue had startled. But in a moment she na.u , regained control ot herself and continued her task. And the man was unaware that,the. girl had oome across a story which connected her , name innocently—with an illicit loya scand^l This is one of the dramatic highlights in* “Tne Scarlet Lily,’-’, a First National picture, at the Maoruand. tomorrow. Later, when the lawyer ran for tne district attorneyship, the “scandai threatened for a time to ruin .his chances, but through the oourage of the girl—whom he had married—his unscrupulous ‘opponent was foiled m a manner tensely dramatic. “A WOMAN OF PARIS.”

“A Woman of Paris,” the first Charles Chaplin serious production for United Artists Corporation, will be tne attraction at the Maonland on Friday. “A Woman of Paris,” written and directed by Chaplin, marks a new departure in almost every element that goes to make up a motion picture. While the theme deals with life as it'really is, the psychological study presents, life’s problems from a viewpoint that is more one. of understanding than of preachment. ' The story unfolds an exquisite tapestry, woven around a woman’s soul naked' in its sincerity though clothed in its individuality. ' Almost an entire year was consumed in the making of “A Woman of Paris” and while there are no huge sets, no mob scenes, no elaborate mechanical effects, the time devoted was in the perfection of the action I and the fidelity to detail in. the treatment of the story.