"WHERE ARE THE GIRLS OF TODAY HEADING FOR?"

Shannon News, 11 December 1925, Page 3

"WHERE ARE THE GIRLS OF TODAY HEADING FOR?"

SENSATIONAL FILM GIVES ANSWER

"Daughters of To-day," a Selznlck 6iiper special picture, will the screened at the Maoiri'land Theatre on Saitur-. da'y. It is the greatest! and most daring expose of -the modern' girl, in her reckless, abandon, ever - filmed—a feast of delight and action. What does a country girl going to 'college for the first time know of jazz, cocktails, cigarettes Unci wild, drives at night? Nothing, untiljs'lie enters the environment of a set wliose. object in life seems tot be to turn the 24- hours of the clock into, [perpetual daytime, with rest only when netoessalry. All that is asElmiMed in the form of knowlledge during the hours of study in class is promptly forgotten when the fun commences ait night. Books ■of Thackeray, Dickens and other ; great writers are-discarded in favour of "Snappy Stories." .Mathematics learnt by day, assist at night, only in determining how many pints gio to a quart of champagne, a.nd how many boxes of, 50 cigarettes will be necessary for a. panty of twenty yOUllg people. : Their geography is limited to the knowledge of road-houses where dancing is indulged in and they have a wonderful! abundance of information re the locale of roads for moonlight rides per car. But all these tilings they are better acquainted with than w*th the capital of Madagascar! Truly their education is of two kinds when at'college. ■ I »' Human nature will ever strive after the unattainable, hence it is easy to understand tile feelings of an unsophisticated country girl suddenly plunged into' tire, whirl of college life —with yoiutng niiooien and young m en, possessed of more means, than herself enjoying life in a hectic wiay. The wild motor rides had thrills for her, and cigarette smoking intrigued her, she even .finding unthought of pleasure in cocktails. None lot this had ever come her way before, the picnic at Thanksgiving time was the limit in excitement when she was home on the farm—and so 'she longed—longed to be with the others—to■ (be as-the others —and when it came about, the change was to her like a dolor opening suddenly 1o a person groping in the dark —tout where did it all-lead her. to? All this is told in' "Daughters of ToDay," withPajtsy Wurtih Miller, Ralph Graves, Edna Murphy, Philo McCul■lough, Geo. Nicholls, Gertrude Zazu Pitts, and a of others in* Selznick's Seven Act special, of mod-, ern flapper life—wjith its false excite-ment-and. extremes'of gaiety. <rHHE PAINTED FLAPPER."

We have heard so much about the flapper's shortcomings and so true to the old saying, "give, the devil his due," tlie flapper, also has a dual character and we must do justice to it. Despite her mantle of frivolity, and air'tJiat leads up to .it, she, too, is blest with that, inmate instinct, womanly intuition, and through her desire for harmony in the household, and the love of her parents' happiness at heart, she devises many meanls of making her mother and father realize ■their mistakes, and she is finally instrumental in bringing about a reconciliation between hen; folks, who have been divorced for ten years. Pauline Garon portrays the role of that capricious individual, "The Painted Flapper," wtiich is to he screened at the »Maoriland Theatre on Monday.