MAORILAND PICTURES

Shannon News, 3 February 1925, Page 3

MAORILAND PICTURES

"THE MIDNIGHT ALARM."

Sites Carriugford kills his partner, Thornton, who has made him executor of his. estate. Through aid of Springer, a servant, th»e murder is palmed, off as a suicide. Carringforu forces Mrs Thornton to flee from his' • obnoxious, attentions. She is killed "at a railroad crossing. Her young daughter is picked up by a Mrs Berg. Her grandparents, Mr and Mrs Tilwell, as well as Carringford, carry on an unceasing s<earch for the lost .child. Carringord finds her keeping a news stand with another waif, Aggie. Chaser, a young crook, is in love with Sparkle, as she is called. Carringlord plants tQ destroy the papers wfiicn would identify the girl as the h<eir to Thornton wealth and takes the money as his own. The. girl and Chaser are finally trapped with Carringlord in a burning office building, when earring-, fqrd tries, to get the documents from Sparkle. Carringford 'and Springier die in the flames. Harry Westmore, a fire captain, Who had become enamoured to Sparkle, rescues (her from the building, where she had beem imprisoned in a steel vault. Sparkle is restored to her grandparents and the wealth due her. Chaser gives way to Westmore in his suit and turns his attention to deserving Aggie.—See "The Midnight Alarm" at. the Maoriland on Wednesday. - "ASHES OF VENGEANCE." FRIDAY'S Blfi SPECIAL.

"Ashes Vengeance," 'the most pretentious photoplay in which Norma Talmadge has ever been starred, and one of th>e hiiggest and most magnificent productions of .1924, a First National picture directed by Frank Lloyd will be shown on Friday. "Asjhes of Vengeance"' is a dramatic romance of turbulent France under tlhe treacherous dominion of C,atherin<e de Medici, the power behind the throne of weakwilled Charles IX, in 1572. Norma Talmadge and Conway Tearle are the central figures in its beautiful love story. Upward of 4000 players tak«e part as court dames, courtiers, soldiers—mounted and afoot—dancers, populace and servants, in addition to the distinguished cast of principals, 20 in number, including Conway Tearle, Wallace Beery, Courtenay Foote, Josephine Crowell, Betty Francisco, Claire McDowell, Andre de Beranger, Murdock MacQuarrie, Boyd Irwin, Carmen Phillipis, Winter Hall ajnd others.