MAORILAND THEATRE.

Shannon News, 6 October 1925, Page 3

MAORILAND THEATRE.

"IF I MARRY AGAIN."

Doris Kenyan, former stage favourite, who recently was given a starring contract with First National, will be seen in the greatest role of her career in "If I Marry Again," a love drama which comes to the Maoriland Theatre o/i Wednesday. The picture calls for a rare, type of emotional acting—a type such as can be entrusted only toi a very lew players. That Miss Kenyon is ideally cast in this picture is manifest, by the observations of Ihe newspaper critics who have seen the picture and who agree that her characterisation is one of the outstanding dramatic performances of the year. Surrounding Miss Kenyon is an ideal cast of film favourites, inehui- , ing Lloyd Hughes, Frank Mayo, Hobart Bosworfh, Anna Q. Nilsson, Myrtle Ste'dman. and Baby Dorothy Brook.

"COCAINE"—FRIDAY. The mirage of life, the giver of a stone, instead of bread, shadow instead of substance—that is cocaine, which daily is taking a terrible toll in soul force and m human lifer "Cocaine" is a fearless expose, and, moreover, it is an interesting, dramatic, well-balanced, and well-told story. It was produced by the .British dire tor of world fame, Graham Cutis. who has other notable dims to his credit. The picture holds the attention right to the final fade-out, and is fully up to American standard as far as ihe technical side is ''Oiiosnu-'d. The whole of the cocaine traffic Udealt with trenchantly, in a story replete Willi interest. There is a line cast of British players. The stm, Hilda, Bayley, gives a particularly fine interpretation of the part ol a drug-crazed actress. The film opens with some g.ljinp&c~ J of the shady dancing clubs in London, where cocaine is easily obtainable. The working of the traffic is vividly shown, and then the speHa'Or sees the "man higher up," the man who makes his money in this traffic with human souls. Montague W'.nster, however, is troubled with ceiucience. His daughter, Madge, is the apple of his eye, but he is hi draLy fear lest she should become a. ding fiend. She runs away from home to seek refuge with Jenny, a drug-crazed actress, who takes her to a notonoas dance, club. Her father arrives or, ihe spot in search of her, and in the dance hall, the hell of his own making, he meets with a terrible rotriov.tion. The police arrive, and shoots himself. Madge,is saved f r<.m a worse tfate by the timely arrival of her lover. An added attraction is "The Wonderful Story," starring Herbert Langley and Lilian Hall-Davis. It is a story of primitive life and concerns two brothers, one woman, plus one baby.